I am not sure why this is happening but I think it is because some of my AVI files are corrupted.
I use a very cheap (but trusty!) O-RITE video camera and it is already a bit old. Usually the clips it records play well on my PC, but sometimes the clips seem corrupted - - - for example, sometimes when I DRAG&DROP one of these clips into the timeline of WINDOWS MEDIA MAKER it will not accept the file as a VIDEO FILE... it thinks it is an AUDIO FILE!!
The point is that I want to upload the AVI file to youtube, and it gets rejected (UNKNOWN ERROR)... so I try to convert it to an MPEG via WINDOWS MEDIA MAKER, and this program will not accept the file as a video file, and therefore I can not convert it.
However that AVI file still plays nicely on my PC!
does anyone have a clues as to what is going on????
THANKS!
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Drop one of them into Gspot or MediaInfo and they may give you some clues. Gspot is probably better for this. Post a screen shot of the Gspot screen here if you like. PCs can play most anything, even corrupted files or mismatched formats. With a program like VirtualDub, if it will open the files, it may tell you if there are problems with it. I don't have much faith in WMM doing much of anything right.
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TRY other converters! Like Format Factory, WInFF and reconvert to a new avi.
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Originally Posted by Baldrick
Thanks for your help, and you are my very first responder as a member of this forum --- probably I will be here frequently in the near future as I am now going to have to get seriously into VIDEO.
Yes, WMM leaves a lot to be desired. . . . I was using ULEAD for a while, better, but even this program was rejecting these questionable AVI'S ...now my copy of ULEAD is itself corrupted. . . or anyway it seems at least to not work on VISTA.
I have a feeling that my best hope right now is to find a free program which can CONVERT this 'bad' AVI into a new AVI which will 'iron out' the corruption.....
I will try something from the later posts.
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Originally Posted by MOVIEGEEK
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Originally Posted by Baldrick
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Originally Posted by jagabo
I downloaded GSPOT, and input one of the AVIs.... it accepted it and analysed the file. Unfortunately I really have no idea what to do with this information. And can not figure out a way to make a "scream-shot" of the analysis to post here for help.
...any ideas what to do next?
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Originally Posted by Edward PowellDonadagohvi (Cherokee for "Until we meet again")
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This sounds a lot like this problem, the resolution is at the bottom:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic375896.html -
Originally Posted by freebird73717
These are great instructions... however:
-I could not see anyway directly on GSPOT to make a screen-shot
-so I too the next suggestion and tried to make a "print-screen" shot of my entire pc screen...
-now, I tried pressing the "prt sc" key - - - - also with alt, and ctrl, and shift and all combinations, but nothing seemed to work - - - - however my prt sc key is shared with INSERT. Insert seems to be the main function and 'prt sc' is inside a small square. So when i press this key I don't know if I am activating insert , or print screen????
-next i tried to paste this into WINDOWS PAINT.... with ctrl V but nothing appeared -
Originally Posted by AlanHK
AVIDEMUX seems like a great program.... I downloaded it and opened one of my AVIs. It accepted it and actually plays it perfectly..... I can see where I set the settings to COPY but I cannot see how I actually start the copying???? Do I just click FILE and SAVE AS??? I did this but it did not save another AVI , or MPEG as i now have it set to copy...
then I clicked SAVE VIDEO.... and yest it saved the video, but not the audio... and this video file is not being accepted by WMM. -
Originally Posted by jagabo
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Originally Posted by Edward Powell
Just File/Save/Save Video should make a new video file, same format as the original, but hopefully with errors corrected. Which sounds like what you did.... so I don't know what went wrong.
Does File/Information tell you anything useful?
Try it with a different AVI and see if that works.
Or try selecting a different audio format, audio conversions are much faster than video. -
Originally Posted by AlanHK
however WMM will accept the original AVI as an audio file only --- and the new AVI will not be accepted by WMM at all.
FILE INFORMATION give information but not sure it if will help - - - I guess it I could figure out how to post a screen-shot then I could post that information . . .
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Originally Posted by Gavino
thanks!
function + alt + prt sc does the trick!!
here is file info
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