xvid, ogg = cannot determine file type..?

[snappybane]

Strange it is. But when I try to open a xvid with ogg muxed into (avi), VirtualDub refuses to open the file.

Any idea on how to sneak around this, because I have problems fitting 1.3GB on one CD :).

[Acaila]

Never ever put Vorbis audio in an AVI container! They're not compatible. Sure Nandub gives you the means to do it, but that doesn't mean that you should! Vorbis in AVI leaves your movie unseakable and probably otherwise messed up as well. Just use the Ogg container instead.

[snappybane]

Hmm, by Ogg Container what do you mean?

I used OggMux to interleave the audio into the xvid avi- then I just renamed the ogm-file to .avi. It works, seekable etc. I just want to split the file into two parts.

[Acaila]

A container in this respect is the capsule surrounding multiple streams (audio, video, subtitle, etc). AVI is a container, Ogg is a container, XviD is a video codec (which gets created in an AVI container), Vorbis is an audio codec (which gets created in an Ogg container).

Ok, then you did it correctly. When you use OggMux you're not muxing into an AVI container, but an Ogg container (with the extension .ogg or .ogm). Renaming it into .avi does not make it an .avi, so that's why VDub can't do anything with it (VDub can't handle an Ogg container).

You can use the tools located here (http://cyrius.bunkus.org/) to cut Ogg's. It even has a modified version of VDub that should work correctly.

[snappybane]

Thanks a bunch for the clarification.

Anyway- for some reason the modified VDub cuts out the audio when I cut the Ogg container :) into two parts (I've made sure it said 'AVI audio').

Anyway, the OggCutter program worked.