Help importing HD MOV Video from Kodak Zi8

[RjBeals]

Hi group - now please don't laugh at my newbiness, even though I signed up here in 2006 ;)

I just bought the Kodak Zi8 to shoot home videos. It's no canon, but for $150, It's all I need. There are several resolutions you can film in, HD 30P being the highest. Problem is, when I Directshowsource that into Virtualdub, I get a gray screen. I would think it's pretty much the same as the 720 video, which I can filter away with...

Could it be my computer [Intel Core P2 @ 1.83 GHz / 3.24 GB RAM] can not handle the HD clip? I can view them via google's picasa, or Quitetime, so I wouldn't think it's the codec.

Anyway - thanks for any paths you all can take me down.

http://www.rjbeals.com/doom9/720.jpg

http://www.rjbeals.com/doom9/1080.jpg

[Ghitulescu]

In my experience, in some fields, the less you pay for a gear the more you have to dig/patch/workaround, so I decided to get the "right" devices in the first place.

I also had a Kodak, an older one, its MOV files were unknown to anything except the payware QuickTime (the original). Is there any software that came with the camera (I had a sort of :))?

[Inspector.Gadget]

Post a short sample file from your camera in the problematic mode to MediaFire and post the link here.

[setarip_old]

its MOV files were unknown to anything except the payware QuickTimeAs far as I recall, virtually from the inception of the Apple .MOV format, there has been a freeware QT Player (capable of playing those .MOV files, as well as the .QT files that preceded the .MOV format) available for PCs...

[Ghitulescu]

As far as I recall, virtually from the inception of the Apple .MOV format, there has been a freeware QT Player (capable of playing those .MOV files, as well as the .QT files that preceded the .MOV format) available for PCs...

Yes, but the audio was not in synch and couldn't be made into (variable desynch) without a huge amount of work.

[RjBeals]

Post a short sample file from your camera in the problematic mode to MediaFire and post the link here.

I don't have access to storage sites from work - but I've uploaded a 10 second clip (zipped) to my web space here:

http://www.rjbeals.com/doom9/114_0180.zip




As far as I recall, virtually from the inception of the Apple .MOV format, there has been a freeware QT Player (capable of playing those .MOV files, as well as the .QT files that preceded the .MOV format) available for PCs...

Yes, quicktime alternative, which I also use.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/quicktime_alternative.htm

[poisondeathray]

ffmpegsource2 works on your sample clip
http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegsource/

e.g.
FFMpegSource2("114_0180.MOV",atrack=-1)

[RjBeals]

ffmpegsource2 works on your sample clip
http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegsource/

e.g.
FFMpegSource2("114_0180.MOV",atrack=-1)


so much to learn, so little time.

I used
FFVideoSource("C:\114_0180.MOV") and it worked. Your code gave me "Script error: there is no function named "FFMpegSource2" - but it led me down the right path. Thanks!! - this forum is a gold mine!

[poisondeathray]

There is an .avsi file in the zip file that defines the function ffmpegsource2 which includes audiodub() for ffvideosource() and ffaudiosource()

So it's really a shortcut for

vid=FFVideoSource(...)
aud=FFAudioSource(...)
AudioDub(vid,aud)

[Blue_MiSfit]

Easy fix - rename your MOV to MP4 and DirectShow should work properly without trying to use QuickTime.

Your sample is an MOV containing H.264 and AAC. I also sometimes remux content like this to MKV to make life simpler.

Derek

[SeeMoreDigital]

Easy fix - rename your MOV to MP4 and DirectShow should work properly without trying to use QuickTime.One thing to note though. Although this technique often works, it does not make the .MOV files MPEG-4 ISO compliant.

Your sample is an MOV containing H.264 and AAC. I also sometimes remux content like this to MKV to make life simpler.Or you can re-mux to the .TS/.M2TS container using TSmuxerGUI, or to the fully compliant .MP4 container using YAMB :)

[setarip_old]

@RjBeals Yes, quicktime alternative, which I also use.No, I was not referring to "Quicktime Alternative". I was referring to the legitimate Apple-provided freeware version of its "Quicktime Player" for PCs...