Unable to open VC-1 files

[mpiper]

I have tried every single guide on this website and many others. I have wiped my hard drive and installed from scratch and tried again.

I cannot open a VC-1 encoded file for processing!

I have Vista Home Premium, Nero 8, The Adobe Suite, and (I think) every free multimedia program even mentioned in any HD video guide on this website as well as two others.

I can play the VC-1 videos. Windows Media Player 11 opens and plays fine. BUT, when I try to open the video in meGUI for processing (I want to convert to 1280X720 h.264 w/ 192 ac3) the program locks!

I have tried muxing the VC-1 into a MKV, then using Halli and ffdShow with a "DirectShowSource" source command in an AVS script. (both from the MKV and using graphedit .grf)

Is there a magical formula to get them to open in Directshow? Every tutorial says to use an AVS script, but not once has the script worked. I assume I am missing something.

Currently installed:
Nero 8
Arcsoft Digital Theater
MeGUI
MediaCoder
Haali
FFdShow
avisynth 2.5.8
WMV9 VCM

help? Suggestions? Sarcasm towards my stupidity with VC-1?:p

Any help greatly appreciated.

Mike

[poisondeathray]

Did you enable VC-1 in the ffdshow video configuration? (If you are using vdub, you have to enable it in the ffdshow vfw configuration too)

[mpiper]

I have it set to Libavcodec for the VFW decoder and the standard ffdshow decoder. Is that the correct/best option?

I tried WMV9 first, but nothing worked.

[poisondeathray]

I think we are prohibited from discussing what the "best" option is in this forum, but that combination has worked fine for me using VC-1 streams.

BTW, If you have a VFR VC-1 stream, use fps=x and convertfps=true in avisynth, where "x" is the true fps; or else you tend to get sync issues

[sebus]

Latest beta ffdshow will not open the vc1 correctly for playback in MPC or in megui for processing. But if you put this vc1 into mkv file (no audio) then ffdshow works fine with megui
Otherwise Sonic Cineplayer 4.2 filters work OK (4.3 gives error)

sebus

[n0mag!c]

Working for me: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1035422#post1035422
AviSynth script like this: DirectShowSource("serenity.grf", fps=23.976, framecount=171229, audio=false)
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/video2.png
Graph works only from haali splitter from any container, not from raw video file.

[mpiper]

I still do not understand why I have this problem. BUT, I found a work-around that seems to nicely fit the bill.

RipBot264 is a GUI that incorporates many of the tools talked about here. Using Eac3to (Included in Ripbot) to demux and convert EAC3 to AC3, then TSMuxer (also included) to mux video and AC3 into a TS stream allows RipBot264 to open the video and generate a BR disc.

I ended up whiping my HD, then installing AviSynth, Matroska Splitter, and FFDShow on top of my normal (Vista and standard programs) image. The I installed RipBot264, and I've had no problems ever since.

Thanks for all the helps and suggestions!