No picture in WMP [Archive]

Fischerbot

3rd August 2003, 20:08

Hey guys,

Well, I think the header already asked the question, and I really do hope that this question isn't already awnsered in some other post. The only thing I do have is sound.

What I already tried; I installed the codec pack from Doom9, and tried to figuer out, how to find out the preferences of a movie with VirtualDub (hanen't got it yet; maybe need some help with that too).

Does somebody have some advise?

cheers

Tom

killingspree

3rd August 2003, 20:10

have you tried gspot to figure out what codec was used to encode the movie/clip? seems to me as if a codec is missing!

steVe

Fischerbot

3rd August 2003, 20:16

Well, I just found out how to get the information in VD. It said that the video codec is Divx 5.0.5. But that can't be right, because I think I alread had that movie befor 5.0.5 got out. And if it is 5.0.5, there shouldn't be any problem with playing it in WMP; all my other movies work.

Another weird thing is, that I have a picture in VD.

killingspree

3rd August 2003, 20:59

hmmm... okay... i think this means that somehow the header or some other general file structure got corrupted.

easiest way to try to fix this would be a direct stream copy in vdub,

or to run DivFix on the file!

steVe

Fischerbot

3rd August 2003, 21:54

I just tried it with DivFix. I think it found something, but the new file it produced is still not playable on WMP.

I just opend the movie with DivX player 2.1 and guess what, it worked. I would really like to know wtf is going on with my WMP. And by the way, I opend the old file with the DivX Player 2.1 :mad:

I will try now to make a direct stream copy into VD. hold on a sec

Tom

Fischerbot

3rd August 2003, 22:01

ok I got it :D

I opend the file into VD and than made a drect stream copy of it. I don't know why it works now...........

What exactly does the therm direct stream copy mean? And how did it effect my movie?

Dude thanks a lot

You have saved me a lot of time

cheers Tom

killingspree

4th August 2003, 07:14

Originally posted by Fischerbot

What exactly does the therm direct stream copy mean? And how did it effect my movie?

you're welcome :)

direct stream copy means that vdub doesn't change the video or audio (in terms of compression) but just copies the streams :)
what it does though is write a new header for the avi file. so if the information in there is somehow corrupt it get's fixed this way.

steVe