Blank video in avi file

[skaleton]

Hi,
I have an avi file with the following specifications that shows a blank screen in VLC but plays the audio fine.

GSpot[/url]]--- Video Information ---
Video Codec: Divx [DivX 4 (OpenDivX)]
Frame Count: 155848
Resolution: 720 x 432 (AR: 1.667)
Frames Per Second: 25.000
Video Bitrate: 833 kbps

MediaInfo[/url]]Format : AVI
Info : Audio Video Interleave
Family : RIFF
Codec : Divx
PlayTime : 1h 43mn
Bit rate : 833 Kbps
Width : 720
Height : 432
Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 25 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.107
Title : NeoVideo10BV

Both GSpot and MediaInfo tell me that I have the codecs installed.
What is that NeoVideo10BV ( and NeoSound10Bv) mentioned in MediaInfo, that I could not find in VideoHelp nor in Codecs.com?
I read in another thread that it may be a multiple issue but both the width and height are multiples of 4.
I tried AviDemux but the screen is green and re-encoding doesn't change that.
Is there a solution to that issue?

[Baldrick]

Try open the avi with avidemux or virtualdub and see if you see any image. You can then try save as a new avi divx without reconverting, video->direct stream copy and audio->direct stream copy in virtualdub.

[skaleton]

I already tried AviDemux and as mentioned I only had a green screen. I re-encoded it but with no improvement on the screen.



As you suggest, I tried to open it with VirtualDub but I received the following error message



I also tried to open it with MPC and got this message.

Video: DIVX 720x432 25.00fps 833Kbps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {78766944-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 1866240
cbFormat: 88

VIDEOINFOHEADER:
rcSource: (0,0)-(0,0)
rcTarget: (0,0)-(0,0)
dwBitRate: 833125
dwBitErrorRate: 0
AvgTimePerFrame: 400000

BITMAPINFOHEADER:
biSize: 40
biWidth: 720
biHeight: 432
biPlanes: 1
biBitCount: 24
biCompression: Divx
biSizeImage: 933120
biXPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biClrUsed: 0
biClrImportant: 0

pbFormat:
0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0020: 65 b6 0c 00 00 00 00 00 80 1a 06 00 00 00 00 00 e¶......€.......
0030: 28 00 00 00 d0 02 00 00 b0 01 00 00 01 00 18 00 (...Ð...°.......
0040: 44 69 76 78 00 3d 0e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Divx.=..........
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

May it have something to do with that NeoVideo10BV?

[poisondeathray]

I never heard of "NeoVideo10BV"

That title is probably the author/encoder's name

Can you cut a small sample and post it here? You can use avidemux with the mark in/mark out (make sure you cut on keyframes), set video & audio to copy, and format to avi.

[Midzuki]

Already tried ffdshow

[DarrellS]

I have a feeling that this is one of those fake movies that you get from Torrents and file sharing sites meaning that it has no movie at all but a green screen that plays for an hour and 43 seconds. After googling NeoVideo10BV, that's all I came up with and most of them were russian sites.

The error message in Virtualdub says that you don't have the DivX codec installed (XviD will open DivX also) but I was under the impression that VLC player will play just about anything with built in codecs.

[aedipuss]

may be you don't have divx installed? try installing just the latest codec and rebooting.

http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/codec/

[skaleton]

Thanks you guys for your replies.
I am not sure it is wise to continue with this project.
Since the audio is the correct and complete one, could it still be a fake?
How do you post an avi sample?
How can VD say that I do not have the codec and both GSpot and MediaInfo say that it is intalled?

DIV1 Microsoft MPEG-4 v1 Microsoft
DIV2 Microsoft MPEG-4 v2 Microsoft
DIV3 DivX 3 Low-Motion DivX
DIV4 DivX 3 Fast-Motion DivX
DIV5 DivX 5.x/6.x divx.com
DIV6 DivX (MS MPEG-4 v3) ?
DIVX DivX 4 (OpenDivX) Project Mayo

I have not tried ffdshow. I don't know how that works

[Midzuki]

Since the audio is the correct and complete one, could it still be a fake?

Not impossible.

How do you post an avi sample?

You can use avidemux with the mark in/mark out (make sure you cut on keyframes),
set video & audio to copy, and format to avi.

[skaleton]

Thank you Mitzuki. I should probably wear glasses.
Aedipuss was right. I installed DivX 6.8 and now it plays in DivX Player 6.7 whereas it did not play in the previous version I had. The problem is that I don't like that player and I would like to be able to play it with VLC or MPC.
It now opens in VirtualDub but not in AviDemux.