No VIDEO Stream Detected in VDub

[venustail]

Please help. My friend has an avi which when put through g-spot says she has the correct codecs installed for this (xvid and ogg) and it plays perfect with windows media player.

Now here comes the problem. She tried to load the film in vdubmod and also vdub mp3 freeze, both of which say there is no video stream detected.....WHY? I know about vbr audio and such but was not expecting there to be a problem with the video.

She has win xp i'm wondering whether this has anything to do with it. I'm stumped so if anyone could help

filename : The Others.(2001).VITE.ShareReactor.avi

[fingernailX]

When you click on compression under the video tab in virtualdub is xvid listed as an option use for compression? There is a xvid direct show playback filter that would allow it to be played back but would not show up as a vfw codec option in virtualdub. May not be the problem at all but something to look at.

[venustail]

Hi there....thanks for replying so quickly.

The file doesn't even go into vdub for her to check it. It says that there is no video stream detected and doesn't load the file.

I am really stuck here.

[venustail]

oh sorry fingernailx....Missunderstood what you meant....i will check that out when i go over later.

[fingernailX]

I understand that but you don't need any file opened in virtualdub to check if the vfw xvid codec is installed. If its listed then its installed. Like I said before this may not even be your problem but xvid.ax, properly registered as a direct show filter will playback an xvid file in wmp. Xvid.dll must be properly registered as a legacy (vfw codec) for virtualdub to open the same file or reencode something to xvid. Good luck!