AVI from AGK is extremely weird

[der_andi]

Hi,
i'm encoding some episodes from "The 4400" with the xvid-codec.
Everything is ok, except one single episode (the last of season 1).
The size should be 700 MB, fixed-width = 720 pixel.

The final *.avi is 700 MB, but the resolution is about 500x1900, all the picture is like a green screen with some artifacts and the duration in Media Player Classic is about 3 minutes.

The only players, that replays this episode correctly (700MB, 720 Pxl, 41 min) is DivX-Player and VirtualDub.
All other Player i have (Powerdvd, Windows Media Player, old Media Player) cannot correctly replay this file.

All other episodes i encoded work are replayed with no problems on any players.

A friend of mine tested this on his computer, too, and this episode is replayed correctly on any of his players.
So, he gave me 'his' episode, but even encoded on his pc, the problems still occur on my machine... i'm totally helpless...

Any idea, why this episode is a problem on my computer?

Andi

[unskinnyboy]

If the avi opens with the correct resolution in VirtualDub, then it's not an AutoGK issue anymore. AutoGK has done its job. Looks like whatever is decoding the stream is fux0ring it.

Can you render the file in GraphEdit to see how it is getting decoded? Also can you cut a sample of ~10 MB out of this avi so that we can have a look?

[der_andi]

fux0ring

What?


Can you render the file in GraphEdit to see how it is getting decoded?

see attachment...
i don't know if a screenshot is sufficient. i can upload an graphedit-file, too, if you need it.



Also can you cut a sample of ~10 MB out of this avi so that we can have a look?

Well, when i cut some minutes out of the avi with virtualdub, this sample works with any player on my computer.
For this step i used an avi with 1 audio stream.
But a direct stream copy of the whole 'damaged' avi would not work, because i use 2 audio streams (german + english).
As far as i know, virtual dub cannot handle 2 audio streams...




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[CWR03]

VirtualDubMod can handle two audio streams.

[unskinnyboy]

Try installing a recent build of ffdshow and set it to decode MPEG-4. You don't want that Elecard thingy decoding your MPEG-4 stream.

[der_andi]

Try installing a recent build of ffdshow and set it to decode MPEG-4. You don't want that Elecard thingy decoding your MPEG-4 stream.

not really ;-)

[der_andi]

ok, i downloaded a new version of ffdshow, activated decoding of xvid-files, but nothing worked.

In Media Player Classic, that video file works now.
I activated "AVI" in the filter list, which was deactivated by me some time ago.

But the old problem still remains, despite the ffdshow-version.

Here's a screenshot of how that video looks like: