Problem with avi file and virtual dub

[bodomalo]

Hello

I have a avi file coded with MJPEG codec. It's splitted in 4 parts, each around 3 - 5 GB.

Playing these parts with Windows Media Player or PowerDVD is no problem, it works very good.
But I want to convert it to DIVX4 and make smaller file out of the 4 files.

When I open the AVI file with V.D. it doesn't show me the frames. There is no error message while opening the file, and I can scroll with the scrollbar on bottom - but I don't see any pictures, it just says "decompression error -367" at the message line on bottom.
When I try to SAVE and recompress the file I get a message like:

"Can not convert to RGB. This is an very unusual error, please be sure that you disable the option 'force YUV2' when encoding the avi"
But I can not create the original avi files again.


When I try to split the 4 files together (without recompression) I get one big file, but there is something wrong with the timestamps or whatever - it's not possible to move forward in the video - the player will stop immediately and writes "illegal file format"


What can I do? Why do the videos work perfectly with WMP or PowerDVD, but V.D. can't decode them?

Thanks for any help... maybe someone knows another freeware like virtual dub?

[Tommyknocker]

Use Gordian Knot to determine what codecs it needs and if you have them installed.

[bodomalo]

Thanks for your reply. I'll try this software.
Anyway - I think I have the right codec installed, because PowerDVD, Windows Media Player can play the avi, AND I can encode it with TmpgEnc (but only to MPEG2, I want a DIVX4 file)

Only Virutal Dub can't handle this file.