AVI not reconized

[jopereira]

Until now, I've made my home movies with STUDIO DV (Pinnacle Systems), export them in DV .avi format and MPEGed them externally with TMPGEnc.

After upgrading Studio DV to Studio 7, yesterday I've made a test AVI, read it correctly in Windows Player but after inputed it in DVD2SVCD both TMPGEnc and CCE refuses to read it. I not 100% sure (perhaps 99%), but I think I've successfully done DVD2DVCD test encodes before with Studio 7 (last weekend).

What could be the cause?

Could this be related with my other problem? (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=122643)

ps- I have exported another AVI (Indeo 5.10 format) and I get the same problems

[markrb]

Can you be more specific?
Do these programs not see it?
Is the Go button shaded out?
What exactly happens?

Make sure the file has not been marked read only. It needs to be read write.

Mark

[jopereira]

Can you be more specific?


Yes, I can :D.
The avi is seen by DVD2SVCD, and the go bottom is active. I'm not at home right now, but the encoded video (only 240 frames) is a message related to avisynth (avs file not accessible; cannot open .avs file or something like that). Sorry Mark, I can't be more specific right now :(.

Make sure the file has not been marked read only. It needs to be read write.

Well... if you are right about that, I must confess I would never though of that!!! I'll post feedback here.

TIA.

[jopereira]

Mark,

Studio 7 .avi files only have "archive" attribute set, not read-only. BTW, StudioDV doesn't put any flag in .avi.

For information: Studio 7 .avi files are read correctly by VirtualDub (and Windows Media Player).

I'll try some more tests, but today after a crash recover I was able to encode with DVD2SVCD with CCE :confused:

Shouldn't DVD2SVCD be able to handle .avi files that must be 'standard'? What could be the cause?

TIA.

[markrb]

Avi files are tough to deal with. There are so many methods and codecs to use. Sometimes it just doesn't work.

I don't use the Avi2SVCD part myself. I had only seen that the read only attribute has been a common problem that is easily fixed.

If this happens again play the avs file in Windows Media Player. Sometimes Media Player 7 doesn't work with AVS files, but the older version that is included with all versions of Windows 98 and above, but it's only in the Program Files directory and not on the start menu. Check to see if you can watch the video or is there an Avisynth error.

You may also want to give the new avisynth.dll a try, version 1.07D.
You will find it linked with instructions in this thread, make sure to put this in your windows/system32 directory.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22696

Maybe others with more experience in Avi's can shed more light on this.

Mark

[jopereira]

After a few more tests including avisynth.dll version 1.07D, the problems stays the same...

Now... running TMPGENc alone:
I found that if I remove from TMPGENc->Environmental Setting->VFAPI plug-in->Avisynth "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\ReadAVS\ReadAVS.dll", I can read my AVI files directly from TMPGEnc just like I did before DVD2SVCD instalation.

In DVD2SVCD:
The message I get in my encoded video files is:
"AVISource autodetect: couldn't open file
(C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Movie\Avisynth_Script_file.avs, line 3)"

Here is my Avisynth_Script_file.avs file:

LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\SIMPLE~1\SIMPLE~1.DLL")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2DEC\MPEG2DEC.DLL")
AVISource("C:\MYDOCU~1\PINNAC~1\MYPROJ~1\TESTEC~2.AVI")
ConvertToYUY2()
TemporalSmoother(3,2)
SimpleResize(480,576)


Media player can read my AVI file, AND can read my test.avs file with:

AVISource("C:\MYDOCU~1\PINNAC~1\MYPROJ~1\TESTEC~2.AVI")

Since TMPGENc also does read it, what is the problem with DVD2SVCD? What makes avisynth don't work in DVD2SVCD?
Could it be SimpleResize or MPEG2DEC filters?

TIA,