Converting MKV with AVC video to AVI

[bmwracer]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of converting an mkv file to avi and when I try to run avc2avigui, I get an "Application Error" message.

I'm trying to run this little program on my new Athlon II x2 PC (running WinXP SP3) and I can't get the GUI to work... Running the program from the command prompt does work, however.

On my old PC running WinXP SP2 the GUI works fine. I can't rightly say that the Service Pack difference is the cause of the problem, but it is the most obvious thing.

Anyone else have this problem or can offer some insight into possibly fixing this?

Thanks in advance.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of converting an mkv file to avi and when I try to run avc2avigui, I get an "Application Error" message.

I'm trying to run this little program on my new Athlon II x2 PC (running WinXP SP3) and I can't get the GUI to work... Running the program from the command prompt does work, however.

On my old PC running WinXP SP2 the GUI works fine. I can't rightly say that the Service Pack difference is the cause of the problem, but it is the most obvious thing.

Anyone else have this problem or can offer some insight into possibly fixing this?

Thanks in advance.

Why do you want to put an H.264 stream into AVI? And most important: Why the heck are you posting this completely unrelated problem in the sticky thread ???

(AFAIK avc2avi only takes "raw" AVC/H.264 streams as input, not MKV files)

[bmwracer]

Why do you want to put an H.264 stream into AVI?
Because I want to.

And most important: Why the heck are you posting this completely unrelated problem in the sticky thread ???
If I posted this question in the wrong thread, I apologize.

Moderators, please feel free to delete or relocate my question.

(AFAIK avc2avi only takes "raw" AVC/H.264 streams as input, not MKV files)
I know that.

I extracted the h264 stream from an mkv file using mkvextractGUI... Now I want to convert the h264 stream to avi.

[Midzuki]

avc2avi still is the recommended tool for going from "raw" .264 to "cooked" .avi. :) If the GUI doesn't work under XP SP3, better complain @ the developer who wrote it...

Sadly there is no "XP SP2 compatibilty mode"... :)

Seriously now, even FRAPS had to change because of the Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. But if you insist on wanting to use a GUI that doesn't/cannot work, then you're out of luck, I guess.

EDIT:

¿ Does your new Athlon II have the infamous dot NET thing ?

[bmwracer]

avc2avi still is the recommended tool for going from "raw" .264 to "cooked" .avi. :) If the GUI doesn't work under XP SP3, better complain @ the developer who wrote it...

Sadly there is no "XP SP2 compatibilty mode"... :)

Seriously now, even FRAPS had to change because of the Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. But if you insist on wanting to use a GUI that doesn't/cannot work, then you're out of luck, I guess.
I figured as much.

Guess I'll have to use the command line version, inconvenient as it is. :(

EDIT:

¿ Does your new Athlon II have the infamous dot NET thing ?
"dot NET thing?"

I guess I'll have to Wiki/Google that... Thanks for the heads up.

[Guest]

[moved out of the previous "daily builds" stickie thread]

[bmwracer]

Thanks.

And sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

[bmwracer]

New findings:

It's not a WinXP SP3 issue: I tried the same program on another SP3 PC and it works perfectly.

Could it be that I'm missing a .dll or something like that?

[bmwracer]

More info:

I asked a coworker (software guy) to parse the executable file and it turns out that the program needs mscoree.dll, which is part of the .NET framework.

I'm pretty sure that I don't have .NET installed on my new PC yet... I'll check on that when I get home later.

[bmwracer]

Okay, it's confirmed: avc2avigui requires dot NET Framework 2.0 to run properly...

And it has to be 2.0: I initially installed 4.0 and I got a dot NET Framework Version error message.