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Working .AVI file shows no video in Womble's Input/Output windows.

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Sorry to bother you guys with this, but this forum has had more posts in the past week than the Womble Tech Support forum has had in the past six months. Anyway, the title says a lot, but here's some extra details:

-The file works perfectly in three separate media players.

-Similar files downloaded from the same source work perfectly.

-According to the "properties" of the video file in Womble, the video is of the "ffdshow Video Codec" format. I have ffdshow installed, so it sounds like it should work.

-Various tweaking of the codec properties in ffdshow's VFW configuration panel yields no results.

Anybody have any ideas?

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-According to the "properties" of the video file in Womble, the video is of the "ffdshow Video Codec" format. I have ffdshow installed, so it sounds like it should work.

is confusing. I think that Womble is reporting that the video is being decoded by ffdshow, but it doesn't actually know what codec is used for the video encoding.

I suggest you try and find out more details about the file - load it into VirtualDub, or try GSpot/MediaInfo on it.

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Moth3r said:

I suggest you try and find out more details about the file - load it into VirtualDub, or try GSpot/MediaInfo on it.

Thank you so much! I analyzed it with MediaInfo and it told me that I needed the XViD codec. Once I downloaded that, it worked like a charm. For some reason, I thought the XViD codec came with ffdshow.

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Well, ffdshow should have been able to decode Xvid-encoded video. Not sure why it couldn't. But glad you got it resolved anyway.

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Sorry to bother you again, but I'm having a similar problem with another file. This time it doesn't show a picture, but instead of being solid black, it's black with a greenish tint. Again, the audio works fine. According to MediaInfo, the file uses the DivX 5 codec, which I installed. Still nothing. I even re-downloaded the file to make sure it was correct. Any suggestions?

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Transcode it before working with it.  XviD and DivX are terrible formats to edit with anyway.

Then again, I know nothing about how Womble works, so that might not matter so much.

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Womble does not like editing anything other than MPEG-2 files.  That is more or less what I would expect to see.  I agree with ChainsawAsh: don't edit DivX or XviD, if that is what you have.  If you encode the files to MPEG-2, edit and smart render, you might achieve passable quality, but I would hate to resort to this.  Is the original source of your video unavailable?

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I'm almost ashamed to say it, but I'm a huge Power Rangers fan. Basically, I've got the highest quality encodes available (some are DVD-quality, others are just above passable) for a certain set of episodes and I wanted to make an edit of just the fight scenes. I'll try converting to MPEG2 and see if that helps. Is there a recommended program for that?

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There seem to be commercial DVDs available -- unless these are rare episodes or something -- so you really should use those as your source.  Your AVI rips will have been resized, probably to different resolutions.  To convert them to MPEG-2, you will have to resize them to make them DVD compliant and to make them match each other.  This will involve learning a fair bit about resizing video and some of the basics of Avisynth.  Once you have done that, you can encode with HC Encoder, which is a free high-quality MPEG-2 encoder, and take your files into Womble to edit, if you are determined to edit in Womble.

Working from the DVDs would be easier.  Even then, editing in Womble is not as easy as it looks, if you want to do it properly.  You have to learrn to work round its bugs.

Really, Womble is designed to edit and smart render MPEG-2 files.  It isn't really very good at anything else.