Encoding Microsoft Video 1 to x264

[fleon]

Hi, I used camstudio to create a video tutorial for my college but the output video that it generates is encoded to microsoft video 1 and its huge, so I will like to compress it with x264.

I always use megui 03.4.12 and when I try to see parts of the video to cut it with the avs cutter and I push play it goes on but then it goes backs and the video kinda disappears and some black squares appear.

I dont know if it has something to do but the video involves a friend of mine on the webcam.

The video plays fine on my pc also, it just those problems in the avs cutter part of megui when i play it,

Also when I enqueue to video to convert it, megui shows me a message that says: the colorspace of your clip is not YV12... Do you want to me to add ConvertToYV12() to the end of your script?, so I pressed yes.

I cut it to encode just 5 seconds of the video, and it came with those blacks squares and with the video going forward and going back very fast, so I dont know how to fix this, please help

[Blue_MiSfit]

1) Microsoft Video 1 is utter and total fail. It just happens to be the default video codec on most apps that use VFW (Video for Windows), which is usually the case when you output AVI. This codec is about 15 years old. Do not use it under ANY circumstances.

2) There is usually the option to chose the video codec for output. Chose something more modern like Xvid, or x264vfw. Make sure you have these codecs installed on your PC of course :)

3) Then, you can take the resulting AVI and transcode it with much less hassle.

~MiSfit

[fleon]

Thanks, but the problem is that I already used camstudio to record those videos to Microsoft Video 1 so I have to convert them properly, so there is something I can do?, but I do understand you, from now on I am gonna use x264vfw, but camstudio is pretty basic so can you reccomend me other recording software?


Thanks again