Shrink file recognition question

[mikehende]

I connected my digicam to my TV and captured it's video footage from my TV in "uncompressed avi" format but Shrink doesn't recognize it, when I look at the file's properties, it reads "windows Movie", I need to edit this footage in Shrink, what can i do to make this work please?

[Baldrick]

do you mean dvd shrink? it is ONLY for dvd video.

use an avi editor like virtualdub instead.

[mikehende]

I don't understand what's happening here, I first captured in DVD format and now in Uncompressed avi and both files are showing as "windows movie" files, this never happened before, any ideas why?

[yoda313]

As baldrick mentioned dvd shrink is for authored vob files only. You have to take your mpeg or avi files and author them to a dvd structure on your harddrive. Then you can use dvd shrink to compress them if its too large for a single layer disc.

Probably whats happening is windows is identifying any video file as a windows movie file - you might have windows media player set as your default media player.

[mikehende]

Probably whats happening is windows is identifying any video file as a windows movie file - you might have windows media player set as your default media player.

No, WMP is not set as my default player, Nero is, even when I check the file's properties, it reads "Opens with Nero" so I still have no idea why these files are show ing as Windows Media Movie?

[kschang]

Probably because your default capture app IS Windows Movie Maker.

[mikehende]

Nope, my capture card was always set to "dvd" capture and after getting this problem the first time, I then set it to Uncompressed avi and same result, it is showing the avi extension but the file type shows as WMM.

[Supreme2k]

Is the dvd capture to an mpg file? Televisions usually can't capture anything. What capture device are you using? If it is a DVD recorder, you should be able to use shrink on it like any other disc.

[kschang]

Nope, my capture card was always set to "dvd" capture and after getting this problem the first time, I then set it to Uncompressed avi and same result, it is showing the avi extension but the file type shows as WMM.

That doesn't mean anything. DVD / Uncompressed AVI are just your capture destination and profile settings. And what did you think WMM stands for? Windows Movie Maker!

How about you try to capture from VDubMod?

[mikehende]

I am using a leadtek card to capture from the TV, always worked fine capturing to mpeg in the past and the Capture format I always chose was "DVD", I only switched to "Uncompressed avi" to see if I would get the same "Windows Movie" result which is what's happening right now.

I don't get it, with every capture I have done before, I have never had any of my files show as Window Movie, why now?