PLEASE, cannot playback my captured movies

[CrumCon]

hello guys, i need your help this time.

I have captured my movies using huffyuv and i cannot play it back on my pc.
I have captured the movie using virtualdub, the files ended up about 30GB.

But no matter what i tried i cannot playback the movie, thus i cannot convert to DVD / s-vcd

i have tried all options on the huffyuv, but the result remain the same.

please if you guys know whats goin on, or other codecs needed please reply my post. im begging you

[lordsmurf]

I think you're lost.

Captures are not made for DVD. Not unless you capture directly to MPEG format. HuffYUV and the uncompressed (probably) codecs you've tried are AVI, and that is an editing format. Edit the video, encode to MPEG, author, then burn.

[FulciLives]

When you capture with HuffyUV you get an AVI file (filename.avi) and this needs to be converted to MPEG-2 for SVCD or DVD etc.

Popular programs that do that include TMPGEnc Plus (easy for the newbies) or Cinema Craft Encoder aka CCE BASIC (trickier to use but can have better quality and is much faster). There is also the Mainconcept MPEG encoder. Those are the 3 most popular.

There is also bbMPEG which is freeware but I have only played around with it once to test SVCD for another poster. It seemed to work OK for that so I suppose it might be worth a try if you are low on money. It does DVD as well.

Another one I've heard about only recently (I am guessing it is somewhat new) is DVDSanta. I do not know much about it otherthan it appears to be cheap and set-up to be easy to use but that doesn't always been good quality. The top 3 I listed have been proven to work well and there are many guides on using them.

You should look at the guides on the left hand side under CAPTURE and CONVERT areas.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[cabre]

try vso divx to dvd...it's free,and easyto use....can be found on doom 9 or cnet.

[FulciLives]

try vso divx to dvd...it's free,and easyto use....can be found on doom 9 or cnet.

HuffyUV is an AVI format and DivX is an AVI format but they are totally different.

I doubt that tool would work with a HuffyUV AVI file as a source.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[jlietz]

Either I'm reading the original post wrong, or the rest of you are . It seems to me that he is having trouble playing the captured avi on his PC. I read his comment about DVD as, "I know that the file must be playable as an avi before I even get to the step of converting to a DVD format".

So, CrumCon, give us some details. What software player are you using and what error message do you get? Have you loaded the file into GSpot (look in Tools on the left if you don't have it already)? Does GSpot say the file is corrupt?
Let us know.

[non-linear]

I think the rest of them are reading it wrong, because I read it the same as you, especially since he said "But no matter what i tried i cannot playback the movie, thus i cannot convert to DVD / s-vcd", so it seems to me he's saying he can't watch it on his PC, so he can't convert to DVD, which sounds right, since if Windows can't play it back, then it's probably not gonna be able to decode it for conversion.