AVI problems

[BrianZ]

ok I'm pretty new to making VCD's.. I have been making little video "clipets" for the Internet, but now I want to burn to VCD.. I recently bought a new computer (2-1Ghz P3 with 1 gig ram, 100 gig HD win2K) and cannot capture video on it because of the card I have does not support win2K(Matrox G400-TV). So I'm capturing the videos on my old computer (500Mhz P3 256ram, 40gig HD win 98SE). I save the videos in the largest format i can, and in the least amount of compression. when I try to edit, or use the video file on the WIN2K machine all i get is windows media player playing it as if it was a audio file. Adobe premier 6.0 will not even let me edit or view the file.. but on my win98SE it works just fine.

What am I missing?

[TOMMO]

I suspect the following is happening.

When you capture your video, you are probably using a Matrox codec. That basically is a bit of software like a driver, which links the movie file to your Matrox card.

When you transfer to your new machine, this codec is not present to play the movie, but can play the audio.

The exact same problem would occur if I sent you captured files in raw capture format that I captured on my DC30.

Solution - god knows, persaude Matrox to give you a 2000 driver for your card. Sorry.