HELP!! Calling for an AVI expert!!

[thegeeman]

Hi

I hope someone can please tell me what i am doing wrong before i become old and decrepid! Its become totally annoying.

I have some avi files. I tried to play on Divx Player. Could not play and it came up with prompt, video data: Four CC's "Code 0". Got to be codec's i thought! I have several Codec packs on system ( NimoLite 10,DivxPro and also Xvid video codec). I scanned with G-Spot to confirm what DivxPlayer reacted with and was told the following: 1. Corrupt avi header, 2.Compatible video codec WAS available and 3. i could see no details in the audio stream section!! This all puzzled me. So i Scanned them with DivxRepair and DivFix just to see if there were any bad frames. There were none. I ran DivxFix 1.10 to rebuild index and check any errors again. None. It corrected the 'corrupt avi header' though.

All appeared fine ( as far as i could tell anyway) apart from that i could still get no picture from the files. Just a big black blank screen and no audio. I tried playing files in the following: WMP 9, PowerDVD, RealPlayer and Divx Player. Even tried to watch via 'Preview' with TMPGencPlus-nothing. Same response from all of them-blank screen and no audio!

What am i missing?? Or is it that these files are just a waste of time? I am not the most technologically minded so a 'newbie' reply would be great.

Thanks alot
WG

[Gazorgan]

DivFix is an evil program, you shouldn't ever use it if your going to convert anything. Gspot is good about 75% of the time, and the rendering is good about 50% of the time. It's not fullproof by a long shot. You also ahve to interpret the data correctly (being able to render it doesn't mean you can play it, don't ask)

Easy fix: Get the Fourrcc changer in the tools section. Change your headers to divx/divx. Try that. Works 95% of the time. Also, do you have the AC3 filter and the OGG-Vorbis codecs installed? Your audio could be either one (as well as PCM, MP2 and MP3, but those should play). Nearly all of the MPEG4 AVI's can be rendered interchangeably. Only XviD has something DivX doesn't, and it's rarely implemented.

I've never had an AVI I couldn't convert (including corrupt downloads).

[thegeeman]

Hi
Thanks for the reply. I've tried what you suggested but still no joy. The funny thing is that this same thing has happened with over 10 fully downloaded files now! Not to mention partially downloaded files- i preview them with AVI Preview-just a blank screen. Something isn't right here! It must be me!
I wonder if this is down to where i have downloaded these files from?? Because i have never had a problem when i've downloaded avi files from Winmx but now that i have some from KazaaLite-none work!

Any suggestions?
Thanks
WG

DivFix is an evil program, you shouldn't ever use it if your going to convert anything. Gspot is good about 75% of the time, and the rendering is good about 50% of the time. It's not fullproof by a long shot. You also ahve to interpret the data correctly (being able to render it doesn't mean you can play it, don't ask)

Easy fix: Get the Fourrcc changer in the tools section. Change your headers to divx/divx. Try that. Works 95% of the time. Also, do you have the AC3 filter and the OGG-Vorbis codecs installed? Your audio could be either one (as well as PCM, MP2 and MP3, but those should play). Nearly all of the MPEG4 AVI's can be rendered interchangeably. Only XviD has something DivX doesn't, and it's rarely implemented.

I've never had an AVI I couldn't convert (including corrupt downloads).

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[Roderz]

Codec packs?? what cr#p did that install I wonder

[abraxasDVD]

Are these fake files???

Get a copy of Gspot is it reports as RGB i found all these files to be fakes or get hold of a copy of a Hex editor and view the files if all zeros its fake.

Hope this helps

ABRAXASDVD

[reboot]

If you got them via P2P, odds are they are fake.
It seems to be the thing, post some huge 150+ meg file, with a name copied from one of the prerelease movie groups (tmd, ttr, etc), and if you're lucky, it's got a bit of video, but no audio, and it's full of errors.
If gspot says it's rgb video, then you have just downloaded 150 meg of an uncompressed avi, and only have about 3 minutes of it anyhow.
Either get your movies from a reliable source (which we cannot discuss here), or rip them yourself, (which we also cannot discuss here).

[thegeeman]

Are these fake files???

Get a copy of Gspot is it reports as RGB i found all these files to be fakes or get hold of a copy of a Hex editor and view the files if all zeros its fake.

Hope this helps

ABRAXASDVD

Hi
Thanks for replying. you are 100% correct. They were all zeros or _RGB. Basically a load of crap! thanks for the warning.
Cheers
WG