Strange thing happening with DVD2AVI all the sudden...

[Jeff D]

Starting today I'm having some strangeness with DVD2AVI, everything use to work great.

In the last week I've installed premiere and PluginPac FrameServer app for serving up the exported timelines.

When I open a .d2v file I'm told
"Cannot play back the file. The format is not supported."

I've checked the DVD2AVI video format and it's in YUV, I've also tried RGB. Both have the same result.

I have no idea what's going on. There also seems to be a very small set of video codecs installed...
from gspot's listings:

DSH DV Video Encoder qdv.dll
DSH Indeo® video 5.10 Compression Filter Intel Corporation ir50_32.dll
DSH MJPEG Compressor quartz.dll
DSH DFSC PluginPac FrameServer VFW Codec qcap.dll
VFW CVID Cinepak Codec by Radius Radius Inc. qcap.dll --> iccvid.dll
VFW DIVX DivX Pro(tm) 5.1.1 Codec DivXNetworks, Inc. qcap.dll --> DivX.dll
VFW HFYU Huffyuv v2.1.1 - CCESP Patch v0.2.2 Disappearing Inc. qcap.dll --> huffyuv.dll
VFW I420 Intel 4:2:0 Video V2.50 Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msh263.drv
VFW IV32 Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2 qcap.dll --> ir32_32.dll
VFW IV50 Indeo® video 5.10 Intel Corporation qcap.dll --> ir50_32.dll


Any idea what happened? Did an important codec disappear from my system?

BTW I'm saving a project in DVD2AVI, not an AVI file. I've tried both 1.76 and Don's version, same results.

Thanks

[Jeff D]

Any ideas? Maybe what to uninstall and reinstall? I've uninstalled and reinstalled DIVX and the xvid codecs, but that didn't help.

I've paid attention to what version of DVD2AVI I use and always run and quit then run again to make sure the correct vfp file is the one referenced in the registery.

I'm out of ideas...

[DDogg]

Defining what this means might help - "When I open a .d2v file I'm told "Cannot play back the file. The format is not supported.""

[Jeff D]

Originally posted by DDogg
Defining what this means might help - "When I open a .d2v file I'm told "Cannot play back the file. The format is not supported.""

That's the error I get when I attempt to open a .d2v file in media player, the old media player mplayer2.exe (I think) new media player won't open it, nor will vdub. Like I said previously I didn't have a problem before last week. And I have no idea how to get back to a working state.

Win2k box if that matters...

[DDogg]

I think if you were actually 'playing' a D2V, you would have had to be using Gabest's MediaPlayer Classic which looks very much like the older WMP. None of the Microsoft players could ever play a D2V, as far as I know (could be wrong). The playing of d2vs in Media Player Classic (MPC) is no longer functional with the later versions of mpeg2dec3 that have arrived recently. You might want to ask more about this in the software players forum in the MPC thread.

[Jeff D]

Doh! Dumbass move, thanks ddog. Just needed to hear I'm doing something wrong. got it all figured out. Needed to get the file into a script for it to work. Everything is fine... user error.

Thanks