Problems with VirtualDub mpeg-1 to avi conversion...

[Vladimyr]

I've followed the guide on the website and everything seems to go okay up until I click the final ok to start the conversion. I left VirtualDub run for about 10 minutes and not a single bit of progress occured.

The guide says to use DivX Low Motion for the compression but it's not even an option for me. I've installed the Nimo pack and all the stuff from DivX. I tried doing this using the DivX 5.02 option for compression. Any help anyone can offer would be grand.

Thanks.

[KingJohn]

If you have Nimo, then that codec is in there

Load into Vdub

Video > full processing mode
Video > compression > Select a codec > change bit rate for smaller size

Audio > full processing mode
Audio > compression > select codec > change bitrate for smaller size

SAVE AVI

[Vladimyr]

I've looked and looked...I've uinstalled Nimo and reinstalled it. I've uninstalled the DivX 5.02 pack and just installed Nimo...hell I've even just installed the 4.12 DivX pack. The only codec that shows says just like this...

DivX 5.02

Or

DivX 4.12

That's it. The one with the winking smiley isn't there. I don't get it.

[Vladimyr]

I've tried just about everything I can think of to try. This is VERY frustrating. I hear so many people saying great things about VirtualDub but it just isn't working for me. When I went to save my AVI file one time, I went ahead and put to preview it and it said it would be like 980 megs or some such madness.

I'm following the tutorial as best I can from both here and NickyPages. Neither are working for me and the only DivX related codec I see for use in VirtualDub is the 5.02 codec.

Please, by all that is sacred, someone help me...*laughs*

[KingJohn]

Fill in your computer details, then we know what you have.

You can check to see what codec's you have installed. Control panel > multi media > Devices > Video compression codec's
Then at leased you can see they are installed.

If you load into TMPGEnc what happens ?

You can save to AVI in there file > output to file > AVI > codec

[Vladimyr]

I checked out all my codecs like you said and I found that it still only showed the DivX 5.02 codec as far as DivX codecs go.

I tried using TMPGEnc to change to AVI and the first time the audio was out of sync. So, I used dBpowerAmp and put the audio into wave format. This also didn't work correctly. I'm guessing that the mpeg file was just not put together well.

Anyway, I finally used a program called MPEG Mediator and changed the files from mpeg-1 to AVI. Then using VirtualDub I pieced the resulting two AVI files together into one AVI file.

Thank you so much for all your effort. I really appreciate it.

[KingJohn]

I checked out all my codecs like you said and I found that it still only showed the DivX 5.02 codec as far as DivX codecs go.

Well sounds like they are not getting installed, you use XP ?

Nimo
Coder & decoder Divx 4.12 Build 307 (Project Mayo)(divX).
- Coder & decoder DivX V3.11a (3.11Alpha Low Motion)(Div3)
for playing old compressed movies.
- Coder & decoder DivX v3.11a (3.11Alpha Fast Motion)(Div4)
for playing old compressed movies.
- Coder & decoder DivX WMA Audio V4.2 (Standard)(divxa32).
- Coder & decoder MPEG-Layer 3 Audio V4.2 (Professional)(l3acm), With control panel icon.
- Decoder for AC3 Audio V2.2.
- Coder & decoder MS MPEG-4 (For ASF/DivX Conversion)(mpg4,mp42,mp43).
- Filters for Vob playback in Windows Media Player:
MPEG Parser ActiveX filter
MPEG Decoder ActiveX filter
- MS-MPEG4 ActiveX filter
- DivX V3.2 ActiveX filter
- DivX V4.0 ActiveX filter
- DivX AC3 Prologic ActiveX filter
- The iviaudio.ax : InterVideo Audio Decoder ActiveX filter (No limit time)
- The MS Mpeg Original codec (Microsoft)
- The New MPEG-2 Splitter AC3 XForm
- The New Ligos MPEG-2 Splitter 3.0.0.17
- The Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher (To change the audio stream in WMP)
- I-Media Multi-MPEG2-Source
- MPEG Layer-2 Audio Decoder
- MPEG Layer-3 Audio Codec for MSACM
- DivX AntiFreeze Filter (No more freezed movies)
- DirectSound 3D Renderer (with help files)
- Cyberlink PowerDVD 3.0 Audio Decoder
- Ogg Vorbis Audio codec for MSACM
- Lame_dshow.ax (Lame mp3)
- Wavdest.ax
- Dump.ax
- Windows Media Audio Codec
- Lame MP3 Encoder ACM Codec
- 3ivx Delta 3.5 Codec for QuickTime Windows and the pluging for flask
- Plug-ins for Flask: Panasonic MPEG 1, LSX MPEG 1 or MPEG2
- The New Mpeg2dec DLL And the New Avisynth 1.05 MMX Dll for fast Frameserving
- The New SimpleResize filter for Avisynth
- The New Lame MP3 Encoder ACM 0.3.0
- The New Directshow Bicubic Resizer 1.3
- The New Playa 0.6.6
- The New DivX AntiFreeze Filter 0.4
- The New Sub Station Alpha v2.x/4.x
- The New Moonlight Odio Dekoda
- The New Moonlight Scalar Filter
- The New Subtitle Picture Decoder
- The New DynEQ DirectShow filter
- The New DivX G400 Filter ver 2.7
- The New DivFix 1.06 with Source Code
- The Logo plug-in for VirtualDub and Nandub
- The New Fraunhofer Vob Filters
- The New Fraunhofer Mp3 codec

You need to ckeck them on during Install