Problems with using 'DirectShowSource'

[tomos]

did a search for this error here and in google and no joy

DirectShowSource: could not open as video or audio
Video returned: DirectShowSource Timeout waiting for graph to start
Audio returned: DirectShowSource unable to determine the duration of the audio

used this to get a wmv into vdub and it worked a treat. tried doing this with a transport stream (.ts) but no go.

it looks like it will load but takes ages (filters load in sys tray) then eventually this error pops up

tried with a smaller file (100mb versus 10gigs) and that loaded up but the video is grey

playing the video direct in mpc works fine so cant figure out why this wont work

any advice?

[foxyshadis]

I don't know if this will work for you, but what I did for a couple of recalcitrant videos was open them in graphedit, then open the graph file in DSS. They opened fine after that.

[Pookie]

Use DGIndex on the TS file and Mpeg2source on the resulting .d2v in your AviSynth script. It'll work, and it'll probably be faster than any other method.

[tomos]

used the dgindex/dvd2avi method before. that works fine, but was curious to see if this would work.

foxyshadis - whats DSS? never used graphedit before.

[foxyshadis]

Directshowsource, I'm just lazy about typing it all. :p Graphedit's pretty simple; at its simplest you just open the video in it, and save the graph it generates (if any).

[tomos]

ah cool. its 1.30am here so will check this out tomorrow afternoon when i wake up :p

night all

[tomos]

got around to trying this, but no joy.

got a list of filters showing up and saved the graph but that wouldnt be loaded as a source in the avs

is there a reason why the t.stream itself cant be the source?