Cant convert MPG capture from Wonder VE

[whizmale]

I have learned a bunch from reading this website and forums. Geat stuff.

I recently bought a ATI TV Wonder VE card and it captures TV video at 640x240 8mb sec, with 44k 16 bit audio as an mpg file.

I try to open the video file in premiere and get a error:

Unable to open that file.
File is an unsupported type.

I try to open the file in tmpeg and get a similar error:
"Cannot open or unsupported." I even bumped up the priority for the direct show multimedia in VFAPI and it still doesnt work.

Is there any video program that can open these mpg files?

I can play them just fine in Windvd, I just cant open them in any editor or conversion program.

has anyone else ran into this problem?

thanks
whiz

[mh2360]

Its sounds like you are encoding in MPEG2, you might need a codec. If so then just encode in MPEG1 and up the bitrate a bit...

[whizmale]

Thanks for the quick reply. I have divx5 codec installed, and the updated windows media player.

The ATI TV recorder doest specify a codec, just mpg or avi.

I tried a capture in avi format and got the same message. It does sound a like a codec may be missing , any idea which one?

I have all the standard ones show up in flaskmpeg, huffvey,cinepack,microsoft,divx etc..

thanks for any ideas
whiz

[mh2360]

Which MMC version are you using? The one supplied on disk or MMC 7.1 from ATI's website?

[whizmale]

I am using mmc 7.1 , the updated one from the ATI website. I checked their support for any ideas and didnt see anything.

thanks for your help

[Mirror_Image]

This may (or may not) help:

http://forum.vcdhelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=89375&highlight=ati+vcr+mmc+convert

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