Not able to use my Homevideos

[SVP]

Hi Friends,
I have few home videos that I have filmed few years back in my Sony Handycam using Hi-8 Tapes. I was using Windows 2000 at that time and I was able to download them onto my PC and see them without any problems. Over the years I had moved to Windows XP and then subsequently to Windows 7.

When I try to open those home videos now, I get only the Audio but no Video. When I try to convert them I get an error message that I do not have VXIS Codec and hence am not able to convert it.

I had tried various searches to get VXIS Codec in vain. Can somebody please direct me as to how do I get this VXIS Codec and how can I recover those videos? They were all my travel videos along with my Family and hence I have sentimental values attached to them.

Sincerely hope that someone can help me. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

SVP

[mazinz]

Apologies for bumping this old topic, but at the tail end of 2013 I received an avi video made with such a codec. At first I had thought that maybe it was just a not widely used codec and that FFDshow (or something similar) would be able to play this. Like yourself turns out it just did the audio and not the video and trying to find really anything online for the VXIS codec turned up much of nothing

I got a hold of the person who gave this to me and had asked them what did they use to capture it and if they would not mind letting me see the software. Turns out it was made with a D-link usb capture device. The codec could very well be a proprietary format. The VXIS was mentioned in the manual as being an "uncompressed capture codec".

I took a look in the software folder that he gave me and sure enough without installing the software itself, it had a folder called "avi codec". This lets you install just the codec which then performs and acts as a direct show codec allowing you to then convert or view it using pretty much whatever you want.

The codec is obviously not common so if anyone is having a similar viewing issue send me a PM