Anyone with Lumix LX-1? MJPEG problem...

[DereX888]

I bought this camera some time ago, but I havenever used its 'videocapture' ability until recentlly (it was 'emergency' during my family's function, as no one took any normal dv videocamera I agreed to use my dummy camera to record few clips since my 2GB sd card was almost empty hehe).
LX-1 captures 640x480 @30fps using M-JPEG codec, or so I thought.
I have moved the videoclips to my hdd, I was going to encode it and author on a DVD-Video for my family, but I can't open any of the videoclips with VDub due to problems with video codec. I have M-JPEG codec installed, I did transfer from MJPEG to MPEG-2 before, but I can't even view those clips from this dummy camera on my computer, so what gives?

Anyone else here played with videocapture using this Panasonic Lumix LX-1 camera? TIA

edit:
oops, sorry for posting in wrong section, it should be in 'conversions' instead of 'capturng', someone please move it asap

[shiet]

"problems with video codec' <- details please
are you windows xp? its own quartz.dll should be the decoder...

install GSPOT and see whats the problem with rendering the video.

[DereX888]

nah, i've found the reason.
But thank you for replying.

I have never installed any software that came wth the camera (i never do, usually its useless crap anyway).
It uses QuickTime Motion JPEG codec, which apparently somehow is different from the one I had installed.
Plus I didn't have any QT crap installed on this machine.
I smply installed QuickTime 6.5.2 (the only full version I had) and it works now, but perhaps had I installed the QT MJPEG codec from the camera's CD it would have work as well.
And I hate QuickTime

On the side note it is ridiculous that every new device i buy requires its own proprietary codecs, or wants to install tons of its garbage software.
I went thru installation of canon's printer/scanner few weeks ago, and i have chose "easy install" at first (I thought - stupid me - it will simply install the printer driver and scanner's GUI). Boy what a mistake it was! I got 1.5 GB of extra 'software', all image associations had been stolen by its crap soft, etc etc... Disgusting.

[shiet]

QT mjpeg, omg! :P
would it work with the qt alternative?

[whitejremiah]

it may, actually..............give it a try and see if you can uninstall quicktime and install the alternitive...see if it works or not....to my understanding, quicktime alternitive IS quicktime, with all the extra junk stripped out of it..same with real alternitive.....they both contain the actual video codecs, but they also contain something that basically links the video to the directshow decoder, allowing you to use it with a LOT more programs (someone correct me if i'm misunderstanding that, but im pretty sure that's how it works) so this may be worth a run anyhow, that way your not stuck using propritary programs for conversions.....