File wont load in Vdib or Vdubmod

[Cyber Akuma]

I have the latest version of vdub at the time of this message and version 1.5.10 of vdob mod. I am getting the same problem in both of them.

I have an avi file that is envoded in Xvid1. The file has no playback problems, I can play it in any avi player easily. However, the file just will not open in vdub.

When I try to open it, the status bar gives me the error message "Error Decompressing video frame (whatever frame im on): An unknown error has occurred (may be corrupt data). (error code -100)"

It gives me this error message for every frame in the entire avi file, whats going on?

[Tuning]

Is XviD codec installed?
Otherwise the file is corrupt.

[Undead]

Some say that VDMod versions after 1.5.4 are very buggy. A lot of "XviD & VDMod 1.5.10" crash reports have been posted on the XviD forum. Sometimes it helps to instal VDMod 1.5.4. I've no idea whether it will help in this case but I guess you can give it a try...

[timecop]

"can play back the avi in any media player" doesn't necessarily mean it can be opened by VirtualDub since media players will most likely use directshow decoder, such as ffdshow or xvid-directshow, and virtualdub will use only VFW.

So, make sure you dont have some old version of xvid installed, or you can try completely uninstalling any of 123124524 revisions of xvid, install ffdshow, and try opening the file via avisynth, using
DirectShowSource("file.avi").

What is "Xvid1", anyway?

[Cyber Akuma]

Found he problem

For some reason the RC3 release of Xvid1.0 wasnt working in vdub, it kept thinking I had a pre 1.0 codec installed. Installing an older version of 1.0 fixed the problem.