AVIs from camera not playable

[terrypin]

Recently bought a Canon IXUS 60 to replace my old Sony DSC P1 Cybershot. Very happy with it, but have hit a serious snag. Just downloaded photos from holiday. All JPGs OK. But there's something wrong with the handful of short AVI movie files.

They won't play in most of my movie players (WMP, PowerDVD, IrfanView, NeroShowTime, etc). WMP for instance gives 'Unidentified error'. And I cannot import them into MS MovieMaker, where I'd planned to work on them.

Anyone recognise this issue please? Any known problems with IXUS 60 movies? Any suggestions on fixing?

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

[edDV]

Video is MJPEG, audio is wav (mono).
http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/ixus60/spe-e.html

If you don't have one, you need a MJPEG codec. There is probably one on the CD that came with the camera.

[hrlslcbr]

You can also try installing ffdshow.

[terrypin]

Video is MJPEG, audio is wav (mono).
http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/ixus60/spe-e.html

If you don't have one, you need a MJPEG codec. There is probably one on the CD that came with the camera.

Thanks. But I assume that would be installed by the CD setup? I've re-installed just now but that made no difference. Still can only play in VLC Player. And using Explore on CD, I can find nothing that appears to be a codec.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

[terrypin]

You can also try installing ffdshow.

Thanks. May try that as last resort, but it looks very complex and I'm always reluctant to install software that's way over my head technically.

Does the fact that, unlike those other players I listed, I can play these AVIs in VLC Player offer any clue please?

Also, here is an extract from my Codecs list (created using GSpot):
Type Format Codec Vendor Driver File
DSH MJPEG Compressor quartz.dll
DSH MJPG MJPEG Decompressor quartz.dll
DSH MPEG1 MPEG Video Decoder quartz.dll
DSH MPEG1 MainConcept MPEG Vi... MainConcept... mcdsmpeg.ax
etc

That appears to imply that I do have a MJPG codec, yes?

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

[guns1inger]

VLC uses it's own built-in codecs to play most formats. It is a great way to play back video without installing a lot of codecs, but does not allow you to edit or convert the video.

FFDShow is probably your best bet if the camera disc doesn't have an mjpeg codec.

You could also try using SUPER to convert.

[edDV]

Also, all the current generation consumer editing programs include a MJPEG support for digital cameras (e.g. Adobe Premiere Elements, ULead Video Studio, Sony Vegas movie Studio, etc.).

Or you can buy one ($19-35)

http://www.pegasusimaging.com/picvideomjpeg.htm
http://esd.element5.com/product.html?productid=503295&sessionid=436713294&random=dfcaf...e5cc485f6a8c22
http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/

Once a codec is installed into XP from whatever source, you will find your MJPEG video works in most of your basic editing software like Virtualdub, Windows Movie Maker, etc.

[terrypin]

Thanks both, appreciate your help.

I've made progress meanwhile. A work-around suggested elsewhere was to load the file into VirtualDub and immediately save it again. Tried that yesterday, and happy to find that worked - albeit making file 10 times larger! But naturally I'd prefer to avoid that extra step anyway.

However, today, I tried several original problematic AVI files again - and they now worked OK! So I can only conclude there was some conflict that has somehow now been removed.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

[Ai Haibara]

VLC uses it's own built-in codecs to play most formats. It is a great way to play back video without installing a lot of codecs, but does not allow you to edit or convert the video.

Actually, VLC has a "Streaming/Transcoding Wizard" (select 'Wizard' from the File menu or hit Ctrl-W; I don't know what the relevant keypress is on the Mac since I'm not near mine at the moment. ) that you can use to save streams and transcode videos.