Help with a Lame MP3 *VIDEO*

[mikeyca]

I recently received a video file (with AVI extension) that apparently was encoded as a Lame MP3. It plays (video/audio) in WMP fine, but when I try to import the file into Vegas 5 or DVD Architect 2, the video doesn't show up and the building audio peaks process fails after several percent. Am I just missing a necessary component for these programs, or did someone screw up in encoding video to Lame MP3? Thanks for any help/guidance!

[paglamon]

Open ur file in Virtualdub.Click on FILE/FILE INFORMATION and post a screenshot of that here.

[mikeyca]

Open ur file in Virtualdub.Click on FILE/FILE INFORMATION and post a screenshot of that here.

Thanks for replying! Here's a screenshot of the info:



I appreciate in advance any guidance you can provide!

[celtic_druid]

Vegas doesn't work properly with XviD. You might want to try changing the fourCC to DX50, assuming that you have DivX installed.

[paglamon]

Yes.I think Celtic has answered the query.U might try Ulead Video Studio.BTW,what do u wish to do with the file?

[mikeyca]

Yes.I think Celtic has answered the query.U might try Ulead Video Studio.BTW,what do u wish to do with the file?

Thanks for the responses Celtic and paglamon. I'm trying to do a couple things actually. The video I got was made into widescreen from a 4:3 ratio video, making the image wide and vertically squashed. So I wanted to use Vegas to resize (stretch to fill frame) the video back to its original orientation. Then I wanted to import into DVD Architect to burn the video to DVD.

I don't have Ulead Video Studio unfortunately. Regarding changing the FourCC to DX50, is there a tutorial somewhere to assist me with that? I'm not real familiar with either of those (I do have a program called XviD...is that helpful?). Thanks again for your help!

[mikeyca]

Thanks for the help guys...I think I figured out a solution using VirtualDub!

[celtic_druid]

I'd actually suggest AVISynth since VDub resizing means converting to RGB24.
Resolution is PAL VCD, but the framerate is NTSC. Also for 4:3 it would be 384x288 which would mean stretching horizontally, not vertically. This is the correct way to do things anyway, since vertical resolution is more important than horizontal. Although if you say that it is compressed vertically, then it must have vertical black bars? If so, you would need to crop them first. Quality will be crap though since your effective resolution would only be ~270x200.