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swanside1
3 Aug 2002, 03:53 PM
Hi all,
Downloaded Star Wars from Direct Connect. It wont play.

This is the Full name of it
Star Wars Episode II The attack of the clones [Bra kvalite].avi

Has anybody else had this problem?

What ever I do to it, i.e. go into properties, and select the datails, it just sits there, as if it has locked up.

tried to play on Win Media, and it wont,
Tried it on Power DVD, and it wont,
Downloaded Divx5 with its own player, and it wont play?

Any ideas????

Thanks

Paul....
Enchanter
3 Aug 2002, 04:53 PM
1. Open the file in Virtualdub.
2. File -> File Information
3. Post what you see here
swanside1
3 Aug 2002, 05:34 PM
Hi m8,

Did a print screen, but due to the size, I have put it on my free web space.

Heres the link,

Thanks

Paul
Click Here (http://www.pg001a0001.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)
khp
3 Aug 2002, 05:58 PM
I then saved it as an AVI and it said it will be large and will take some time, so I have let that carry on regardless.

Sounds like you told virtualdub to save the video as uncompressed avi. The file won't be just be large it will be HUGE.

Tell virtualdub to use direct stream copy for both audio and video, before saving.
swanside1
3 Aug 2002, 06:05 PM
Cheers, will try now, it has just stoped saying the file parameter is incorrect?
khp
3 Aug 2002, 06:10 PM
Originally posted by swanside1
Cheers, will try now, it has just stoped saying the file parameter is incorrect?

Was this when you saved the file as uncompressed avi ?, might be because you HD nolonger had any free space.

An uncompressed movie could easily take up as much as 100 GB.
swanside1
3 Aug 2002, 06:18 PM
All I did was pressed Save as AVI,

Is there a way of changing the way to save?

I normally use TMPEGEnc but this just freezezs when I try to open the file?

Thanks for your help

Paul
swanside1
3 Aug 2002, 06:20 PM
by teh way, I just found the file I first saved, after 5% it was 3.95Gb??

Paul
khp
3 Aug 2002, 06:25 PM
You are supposed to select Video->'Direct stream copy', and audio->'Direct stream copy' before saving.

Direct stream copy is the default for audio, but for video the default is 'Full processing mode' which will produce uncompressed video unless some form of compression is selected.
swanside1
3 Aug 2002, 06:33 PM
Thankyou.

Did it and it worked, It will now play in Power DVD and Windows Media.

I just need to make it into a DVD template to put onto a DVD-R

Thanks again

Paul