avi will play in windows media player Can't be converted

[scustalow]

this video..appears to be Japanese..it says it is a avi format but yet it can't be converted to anything..not dvd nor another avi..but it willplay fine in widows media player..my question is..is therre a way to play it in the windows media player and record it to the hard drive?

[redwudz]

What does Gspot say about it? Sure it's not a form of WMV? You might try SUPER for conversion. You might be able to play it in VLC Media Player and it can do a conversion, but I don't think WMP can. Maybe Windows Media Encoder.

[scustalow]

G-Spots says

997 mb
stat Ogg media stream
type application /x-ogg
codec DX50 name Divx 5.0

[redwudz]

Then it's likely ogg audio and Divx 5 video. You might use this: OGG DirectShow Filter / OggDS / OGM Codec and then TMPGEnc may be able to accept it. Or VirtualDub with the same filter added can probably convert it to a 'regular' Divx and MP3 audio. VirtualDub might show you more than one audio stream as ogg audio can have more than one. SUPER may understand and convert it also.

[Ai Haibara]

Sounds like an .ogm movie (Ogg Video). SUPER can definitely convert it, but only if it has one audio stream (not sure about the subtitles).

[scustalow]

I finally got avi converter to convert the file to dvd format..the video looks good but the sound is scratchy..can I somehow rip the sound from the original and then join it with the converted dvd?if so how?

[redwudz]

You could try VirtualDub Mod with OggDS and it may show you the audio choices. Use full processing on the audio and convert the chosen audio to a WAV audio file. I use ffmpeggui to convert that to AC3 and then you should be able to combine that back in with the video during authoring.

[scustalow]

since I am using avi converter..is there a setting on it that may solve my problem?thank you for any help