No video when playing MJPEG

[BobbyBlaze]

Help I'm desperate. My wife's gonna kill me some time today.

I recently purchased Adobe Premier Pro 7.0 and tried to import videos taken with my wife's canon a80 digital camera. Got an error message saying that the video taken with them was in an incompatible compression format. I then did a search and saw that a number of people recommended installing Huffman UV Lossless Video Codec and converting to this using virtualdub. I downloaded and installed the codec and re-saved one of my wife's precious video clips and thought all was well until I tried to access the file. Everytime I so much as tried to open the folder that the file was in, windows explorer crashed. VDUB gave an error message to the effect that the Huffman codec was causing the problem.

First I tried to uninstall the codec via "add/remove programs" and I Windows explorer still crashed when I tried to access the folder with all the videos in. I then went into device manager/hardware/codecs and uninstalled huffmans from there but this still did not stop the problem. I could tell that the converted file was causing the problem as if I even searched for it then crashola. I went into windows command prompt and deleted the file from there which solved the problem of explorer crashing but now, even though GSPOT says I have 3 codecs capable of playing files captured in MJPEG (wot Canon uses) when I try playing any of these files in Real/wmp/windvd/powerdvd I get audio but no video.

I was only trying to make a nice surprise for my wife and have fun and gain experience with premiere before embarking on more ambitious projects but now I can't play any of her precious video clips and am truly for the high jump (if you ever met my wife, you'd know what I mean).

Really appreciate some help getting this sorted before she comes back from work

[BobbyBlaze]

Hi guys,


I will get to live after all. Just uninstalled the morgan mjpeg codec and reinstalled and problem solved. Will do a search on your site for converting to premiere compatible avi but will report back if any problems.