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OK, I have a Radeon 8500DV All-in-wonder. I like to capture the video to MPEG1 at 320*240 resolution at a bitrate of 3.00Mb/second with the audio at 48KHz 16bit stereo sound. (I like to start off with as high of a quality as possible)
I use virtualdub and the latest divx5 codec to encode(not the full versions, just the free/no adware version). Things went funny when I tried to encode (I'll get back to that) so I tried taking just a small video clip with my card (1 min 30 second at the specs mentioned above) and in VirtualDub I saved it as an uncompressed RGB avi file, (I assumed that this would fix things, eliminating anything funny about ATI's encoding that was causing my problems) this was tried with and without sound.
I use the divx codec to encode the file, I use the default settings, essentially, and the two-pass encoding with a bitrate of 900 Kbps. (I was talked through this by others, I THOUGHT that I had it figured out...)
One thing that was never clear was during which pass should I encode the sound. I do it on the second, with no audio compression on the first. When I encoded with no sound, I made sure to select 'no sound' from the audio menu.
After the two passes, when I try to play the video, I get sound (if I kept the sound), but no video, just a black 320*240 screen. This seems to NEVER change, no matter what options I fsck around with. What am I missing?
Somebody suggested to me that video interlacing might have something to do with my problems, I must plead complete ignorance on that subject, can someone explain it? Is it possibly a factor?
Any help would not only be greatly appreciated, I might just bow down before you as if you were a god.
I use virtualdub and the latest divx5 codec to encode(not the full versions, just the free/no adware version). Things went funny when I tried to encode (I'll get back to that) so I tried taking just a small video clip with my card (1 min 30 second at the specs mentioned above) and in VirtualDub I saved it as an uncompressed RGB avi file, (I assumed that this would fix things, eliminating anything funny about ATI's encoding that was causing my problems) this was tried with and without sound.
I use the divx codec to encode the file, I use the default settings, essentially, and the two-pass encoding with a bitrate of 900 Kbps. (I was talked through this by others, I THOUGHT that I had it figured out...)
One thing that was never clear was during which pass should I encode the sound. I do it on the second, with no audio compression on the first. When I encoded with no sound, I made sure to select 'no sound' from the audio menu.
After the two passes, when I try to play the video, I get sound (if I kept the sound), but no video, just a black 320*240 screen. This seems to NEVER change, no matter what options I fsck around with. What am I missing?
Somebody suggested to me that video interlacing might have something to do with my problems, I must plead complete ignorance on that subject, can someone explain it? Is it possibly a factor?
Any help would not only be greatly appreciated, I might just bow down before you as if you were a god.
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