imported avi's to movie star..upside down and backwards!!

[Allens340]

I'm using dazzle movie star 5 to encide avi's....however the last couple times I've imported them into movie star...they appear upside down and backwards...anybody got any ideals what I'm doing wrong or whats happening?......

thanks for any help....

[Allens340]

anybody else use movie star 5?.......

[Allens340]

nobody has any ideals???????

[Mike6453]

Try this link.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q269967

[Allens340]

Thanks for the help Mike......I went to the link and tried to understand what they were saying????............can you put it in simple tearms?

It seems I didn't use to have this problem.....

thanks for your help.......

[Mike6453]

Are you using a different program to create your AVI files or a different capture card from earlier ones that used to work? I don't use MovieStar5 myself so I don't know the different options. Does it have an option to create a file with a different format? The link gave several different formats to try. Another option is to try to read the AVI file into a third-party video editor and export the video to another AVI file with a different pixel format. Since it worked before I would try to think of anything that changed with your system since then. I hope this helps.

Mike

[Allens340]

Mike.....I'm downing movies from the internet and they are in the dixv,xvid,and just avi formats...they all when imported into MS5 turn upside down....It's Dazzle's movie editor program....It will let me encode them into meg1 and 2's.....It's a program I've got that will enable me to make svcd's...Tmpgnc is what I'm using now....but the demo is running out....I was just trying to use what I've already got...so I wouldn't have to buy one............

As far as I know and I've looked......MS5 will not let me change the pixel format.........

As for it working before....it did....I'm thinking it's probably either the nino code pack or the xvid codes that I down loaded....but since I am using them to view the avi's...I want to keep them...........

I'll probably if I can't get it to work with a simple solution start deleteing codes and see if it comes back............

thanks for your help............

[Mike6453]

I came across this in another post. You mentioned the Nimo Codec in your last post.

"I've just downloaded the Nimo Codec Pack off a website and it had a note at the bottom to say which not to install

One of them was called Bicubic Resizer Filter and it said only install it if you have files that are upside down.

I'm guessing if you install this pack (has to be the most updated (ver 5.0 build 9) with the Bicubic filter you might be able to fix the avi in VirtualDub."

Good Luck

Mike

[Allens340]

Thanks Mike....I'll check that out.......

[marco_the_boy]

If a video (encoded with xVid) is upside down, here's how to deal with it.

Run Media Player 6.4 Start>Run>mplayer2.exe

Open the video file.
Click File>Properties
Select the 'Advanced' tab.
Double-click 'Xvid MPEG-4 Video Decoder'
Put a checkmark in the 'Flip Video' option.

Thats it, no more standing on your head in front of a mirror!!

[Allens340]

thanks Marco..I'll try that.......are you talking about windows media player?...if so I assume a later verson will work...if not windows media player which one you talking about?.....

thanks..

[BJ_M]

Run Media Player 6.4

though i suppose you could do this in any media player version - don't know , i don't have upside video

[marco_the_boy]

Use Windows Media Player 6.4

Later versions do not have this feature (I dont know about v9)

This version does come with Windows XP. It is in folder
c:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe

A quick way to run it is:
Press START.
RUN
mplayer2