problem with dv-avi

[paglamon]

My friend transferred video(of our recent trek) from his Sony handycam to his pc through firewire(as DV-AVI).Then he burned this as data into a blank DVD and gave it to me for editing.When I open this DVD in my pc and click on the dv-avi file Windows Explorer crashes.I tried to open it with GSpot. After a considerable time GSpot managed to get the file parameters and declared that I have the codecs installed.Then I tried to render the file in GSpot.Now GSpot too crashed(or nearly so) and said that the problem is probably in qdv.dll. I tried unregistering and reregistering qdv.dll. No success.What now?
BTW,my friend said that the burnt file played successfully in his pc.

[NightTran]

can you copy this file to your HD then edit it?

[paglamon]

No,I can't. Right-click on the file causes exporer.exe crash.

[NightTran]

I have aproblem like that but the file was 1080 somehow the card can not handle and cause the crash

Not righ6t click just highlight then move file from the left window?

[paglamon]

OK.Left click did not cause a crash But,as soon as I selected 'Copy' from the left window,explorer crashed again.

[NightTran]

:-), you need Columbo Or Chewy then :-)

[benbryant]

Make sure that you have the latest version of DirectX 9.0c or reinstall it to see if it helps. Sometimes, you have to delete the "qdv.dll" in the "system32" folder first and then reinstall DirectX 9.0c. Good luck

Regards

[paglamon]

DirectX version: 9.0c(4.09.0000.0904).I have this.

[benbryant]

So you did try to goto Start > Run and type:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll

to re-register "qdv.dll" and the problem is still?

Regards

[paglamon]

So you did try to goto Start > Run and type:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll

to re-register "qdv.dll" and the problem is still?


Yes.Exactly.

[benbryant]

Please go to the link below download the Panasonic DV Codec. I have had the problem with opening .avi files before, after installing this > the problem was gone. Therefore, for every windows clean install, it's always one of the first codecs I install


http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Panasonic_DV_Codec

Regards

[paglamon]

Sorry Ben. .No success.

[anonymez]

qdv.dll is MS's DV decoder that installs with DirectX, as you would have figured out. Looks like something about this DV AVI in particular is the causing explorer to crash, likely the decoder, possibly the splitter. When you open a folder containing images, video or audio, explorer's media shell extension previews (via Directshow in this case, not VFW, which is why installing Panasonic's decoder did not work) each file and generates thumbnails, metadata, etc.

A temporary fix is disabling it,

regsvr32 /u "shmedia.dll"

(maybe remove the quotes, haven't used Windows in a bit) The proper fix would be to enable DV decoding in ffdshow, and if the splitter is the cause, installing Haali's splitter. http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7017/smile6ku.gif

[paglamon]

Thanks anon .I will try to follow ur suggestions and reply.

[anonymez]

Good luck. I should probably add that to enable the extension again, just remove the /u:

regsvr32 "shmedia.dll"

[paglamon]

Unregistering shmedia.dll prevented explorer from crashing.
But,I still cannot play the file.GSpot cannot render it too.In FFDSHOW,DV has been set to libavcodec.Haali's Splitter has been installed.Here is the GSpot info:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2650/gspotrw2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[paglamon]

OK. Latest update on my problem: I could open the file in TMPGEnc Plus.Still no luck with MPC or GSpot or VLC.

[benbryant]

Just like to add that when I first tried Avi2dvd and Super, the tools caused some weird problems such as frozed Virtualdubmod, slow and sluggish to open file with Media player Classic,...After uninstalling them, the problem disappeared. That why I never want to use the apps again

Regards

[anonymez]

Still no luck with... VLC.

Now that's odd. Tried re-muxing with Virtualdub or Avi-mux GUI?

OK. Latest update on my problem: I could open the file in TMPGEnc Plus

Might be because (IIRC) TMPGEnc uses VFAPI by default.

[paglamon]

VirtualdubMPEG2 gave a Data Error(CRC check).
VirtualdubMod started reconstructing missing index blocks and stopped at some point.
AVIMuxGUI just disappeared when I addd the file to it.
VLC apparently was playing the file,but there was no video or audio.It gave this info about the file:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1214/vlc1id9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/2978/vlc2rs8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[anonymez]

VirtualdubMPEG2 gave a Data Error(CRC check).
VirtualdubMod started reconstructing missing index blocks and stopped at some point.
AVIMuxGUI just disappeared when I addd the file to it.

Looks like a bad burn, therefore a corrupt AVI. Can TMPGEnc read the entire file?

It might be best to get your friend to burn it again, maybe at a lower speed and better media. If that is not possible, open it in TMPGEnc and encode to Huffyuv or MSU Lossless. It might not be the complete footage, but it will be lossless, so you can edit it from there. http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7017/smile6ku.gif

[paglamon]

Yes.This is the inference that I also drew from the whole episode.Thank you for confirming it.I will now try opening it in all sorts of programs that I have and see what comes out of it.One thing though;my friend said that he could open the file in MPC? Should I believe him?;);) He burned in BenQ 1650.My drive is BenQ 1640.

[Chewy]

do a scan of the disk with cdspeed

what's the mid code?

[paglamon]

do a scan of the disk with cdspeed

what's the mid code?
Mid code: DVSN -80
CD Speed cannot start to do the test.As soon as I click on start it closes down with an error message.Looks like a very,very bad media and burn.

[Chewy]

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.geocities.jp/himaoyaji_dvd/dvdtest/mpit.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Digital%2BStorage%2BCorporation% 2522%2Bdvd-r%2Bdst%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26pwst%3D1

http://www.isobuster.com/

[paglamon]

Isobuster was the first program I tried to extract the file to HD with. Too many unreadable sectors.

[Chewy]

older lg or pioneer drive might read it?

better to just have your friend reburn and verify

[anonymez]

Moved to Blank Media & Burning. http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/3706/wink7wo.png

[paglamon]

better to just have your friend reburn and verify
Even better might be to burn it myself when I get hold of those mini-dv cassettes.I have you learned people to confer,he doesn't.:)