Problems converting avi file

[trueman]

Hello,

Okay bear with me on this. I am using studio Pinnacle 10 and am trying to open an avi file that was captured using my winfast expert tv card. the file was captured in the uncompressed avi format.
However when I try to open the file in studio 10 I get green windows instead of the video in the scene preview windows.

I then tried to convert the file from avi to something else using a variety of different programs but none of them seemed to work. One in particular (I think it was divx to dvd) gave an error message along the lines of

warning Inpossible conversion: This file contains an A/V stream we are unable to decode.
5/02/2006 6:00:29 PM info Computed Frame Aspect Ratio : 1.3333
5/02/2006 6:00:29 PM info Stream#1 - Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, 1536 kb/s
5/02/2006 6:00:29 PM info Stream#0 - Video: YUY2, 384x288, 25.00 fps
5/02/2006 6:00:29 PM info Found 2 Stream(s) - movie duration 01:02:46.204

I Googled YUY2 and found an article about changing the registry so the YUY2 format uses Huffyuv instead of some Microsoft dll but that didnt help anyway.

I have tried installing k lite codecs and also ace codecs but still no luck.

Can anyone help me out with this problem? Also what is the best way to handle your codecs. Should you just pick a codec pack like k-lite and download and install it or should you install more than one codec pack? I have no idea how best to handle codecs on my pc and am worried that I may end up with too many or with codecs that shut down others that were working fine.

Please help me sort out this mess.

[whitejremiah]

yep...completely uninstall the codec packs, and prey that they didn't do any permanent damage to your system, then try and open the video in virtualdub or virtualdub mod and see if you can compress it from there..or else try giving tmpgenc a run if your wanting to go to dvd....

(and yes, i was serious about the codec packs, they can honestly cause a lot of permanent issues, including system slowdown and instability.....)

[jimmalenko]

The best way to handle codecs IMHO is to stay away ... farrrrr away ..... from codec packs and only install the ones you need.

GSpot or AVICodec can generally help with identifying what codec(s) you need for a particular file.

[trueman]

Thanks for the advice, I have removed all codecs and only install them as I need them.