Meteor Videos / Conversion-Codec Issues

[mikesastro]

I have some videos of a meteor that were taken from a security camera. Its a Pelco security system. The avi files require a special codec PLV1. I have the codec downloaded and can only view the videos on windows, and only in certain players. I haven't been able to get some of the converters and software I've downloaded to work with the codec, even though I can view the videos in windows media player.

Ultimately I need to

1) turn the videos into a common format that doesn't require the codec.
2) dump all of the frames in the videos to jpg files.

If anyone has any suggestions or could help me do this i would really be greatul. I'd also be interested to know if you can get these videos to play and if you can get them to play convert in your software.

Here are the videos and links to download the codecs,

http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/trajectory/mason-dixon-meteor.html

They are pretty cool videos of a fireball meteor that recently crashed in Pennsylvania.

Thanks,

[Baldrick]

Have you tried avisynth? Install avisynth and make video.avs file with just
DirectShowSource("c:\folder\video.avi")

Then open the video.avs in virtualdub.

[mikesastro]

i will give this a try thanks.

[jagabo]

Cool! DirectShowSource(), VirtualDub, Neat Video, Xvid:

meteor.avi

[mikesastro]

thanks jagabo, but when i go to play this on a mac in quicktime, I get quicktime component required.

[poisondeathray]

jagabo used xvid/avi which isn't natively supported on mac

You could use vlc which is crossplatform (pc, mac, linux)

Or you could encode to h.264/aac/mp4

He did it using avisynth, so it might be difficult for you to do conversion if you only have access to mac

[jagabo]

VCD MPEG1: meteor.mpg Looks worse though.

[mikesastro]

Thanks I can view the MPEG 1 video. I have access to the PC I just haven't been able to get it work yet. will try again with these tools. thanks.