AVI to VCD codec question...

[essentials]

I'm currently trying to convert a good quality NTSC AVI file to my preferred format of VCD. However, the video in question is very shaky and completely unwatchable in Windows Media Player. However, when I view it in VLC Media Player, it plays flawlessly. So I am guessing that the codec being used in WMP is causing the issue.

So I am trying to convert this video to the VCD format, and I use Virtualdub 1.6.9 to split the .wav, and then I am using TMPGenc to encode the two files into NTSC VCD format. Pretty standard stuff. Yet, at the end the video has the same jarring and epileptic seizure inducing shaking that the video has when I play it in WMP.

How can I specify which video codec to use when encoding in TMPGenc?

[CybermatriX]

To my understanding VCD (MPEG-1) is not a codec, its a format. The only way to choose a different codec is if you were going to output into an AVI file.

[Steve Walsh]

I'm not an expert but you can change the priority of the "codecs" in the environmental settings.

[essentials]

Thanks for the replies. I changed around the priority settings in the environmental variables in TMPGenc, but I am still getting massive shaking during the encoding of the video.

The source AVI uses the Xvid codec, by the way.

Any other ideas?

[daamon]

@ essentials: Load your AVI into GSpot (v.252 beta), take a screen shot and post it here.

From that info, we can help you more.

[Cornucopia]

Yes, tell us more...

(Hmm, Interlacing?...Bad IVTC?....Bad framerate chunk?)

Dshow priority in TMPGEnc would have nothing to do with this.

If the SOURCE plays well in one player but not in another, there is a decoding difference that needs to be worked out 1st. Graphedit???

Scott

[celtic_druid]

VLC uses libavcodec to decode XviD, so try ffdshow set to libavcodec.