As per the title, someone has sent me a DV file they captured many years ago to edit for them but I'm struggling to open it.
I can play it in MPC-HC but I can't open it for editing. If I drop the AVI into VirtualDub it says 'Couldn't locate decompressor for format 'CDVC'. Using AviSource in Avisynth gives a similar error, directshowsource says the file does not have a video stream, which it obviously does.Video
ID : 0
Format : DV
Commercial name : DVCPRO
Codec ID : CDVC
Codec ID/Info : Canopus DV (DV)
Codec ID/Hint : Canopus
Duration : 18mn 53s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps
Encoded bit rate : 28.8 Mbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:1:1
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Bottom Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Time code of first frame : 00:00:05;10
Time code source : Subcode time code
Stream size : 3.80 GiB (95%)
Encoding settings : ae mode=full automatic / wb mode=automatic / white balance= / fcm=manual focus
I have Cedocia installed and in the config it seems to suggest it should be able to open it, but no dice. Any thoughts? I found the ancient Canopus DV Codec but as expected since it's so old it doesn't do anything on W10.
I also found this tool - https://www.videohelp.com/software/Canopus-DV-File-Converter
But again since it's so old I didn't expect it to work, and it didn't. Well the program loaded, but it said 'the source file cannot be converted by this application'.
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Ok I can self answer this for future reference I guess, I found a random old tool that worked:
http://www.logiqx.com/Tools/AVI2CDVC/AVI2CDVC.php
With the command line
avi2cdvc -f dvsd file.avi
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