Need some help

[dbone]

My buddy taped some stupid stuff from new years last year. He took the video from his mini dv and copied it to his pc. the file is about 750 MB. He sent the file to me through email a couple of months ago which i still have. He lost the mini dv tape so i have the only copy left. I am trying to make him an edited copy for his birthday Jan 2. He does not know I still have the video on my pc. I do a little bit of editing with ULead 9.0 with my own home movies. The problem I am having is getting this video to open up with ULead or any other program for editing. I am not sure what format he copied it in. It will open up and play in media player with no problem. I have tried converting the file with ultimate video converter which also states that it is unable to open the source. ULead is telling me about the same thing. I know the video works, but why cant i open it so I can edit it?

[anonymez]

open the file in 'virtualdubmod', under 'file', click 'file information'. post here all info you see

[dbone]

I knew it was coming and I posted anyway. I am at work right now and unable to get to this. I will post the info as soon as I get home. Hopefully someone, or yourself, can help with that later.

Thanks

[anonymez]

lol i requested it cause i'm thinking its a vfw issue. we'll see soon enough

[dbone]

what is vfw? maybe i will have my wife try it for me so i dont have to wait. what exactly are you wanting me to open up the file with?

[dbone]

When I try and open the file with ULead it names the folder [C:\Documents and Settings.......blah blah......avi] is not accessible.

It says its an .avi file...but wont open.

[tigerman8u]

open the file in Gspot (free). Gspot will give the video and audio info on the file. It will also tell you what type of file it is and what codec/s are needed to play the file and if they are installed on your pc.

[anonymez]

get "virtualdubmod". & open the file with it. gspot should be fine too

[dbone]

virtualdub has detected an improperVBR audio encoding in the source AVI file (audio stream 1)the current preference is to rewrite the audio header with standard CBR values duringprocessing for better compatibility. This may introduce up to 24413 ms of skew from the video stream. If this is unacceptable, decompress the *entire* audio stream to an uncompressed WAV file and recompress with a constant bitrate encoder. (bitrate: 131.8-18.5 kbs)

do you still want to rewrite the header?

virtualdub

[anonymez]

ignore it. click no.

under file, click file information & post the info