Editing MS MPEG-4 Video v3 (DIV3) ?

[Kip336]

Hi all,


I come seeking your desperate help after many failed attempts. For a birthday this weekend, I've tracked down a very old VHS tape that I wanted to convert onto DVD.
I've used a VHS/DVD converter from Ion technology to stream the vhs to my PC, using VLC player to record the video. Figuring that VLC would stop automatically, I walked off to return a few hours later finding an 18gb file, of which most has no video as the video already ended.

I am now trying to cut it into a much smaller file size, but unfortunately I'm having issues doing this in both Windows Movie Maker, and a trial version of Sony Vegas 11. (Vista wont support newer versions)

The video is encoded in MS MPEG-4 Video v3 (DIV3), and saved with the .avi extension.

I've tried converting this again with videolan, but that tends to resort in very choppy video.
I tried Virtual dub, but that doesn't recognize the codec either.

How can I edit this file to cut it down to a normal file size?

Attached a picture of the codec info from VLC


Many, many thanks!

[hech54]

I'd just re-record the video. If that is some variant of Divx it's an old one and it will look like crap on DVD.

[El Heggunte]

VirtualDub will open the pesky AVI if you have ffdshow.

Assuming that it is not terribly borked, bien entendu.

[Kip336]

Unfortunately I don't have the converter anymore (Borrowed it from a friend)

I'll try ffdshow first, if that doesnt work / too bad quality I'll go with the converter again. Many thanks in either case!