Compressing a Video

Merciful Aria · Post by **Merciful Aria** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:03 pm

Here's a picture of my video, and it also has an error that I receive from trying to open the video into VirtualDubMod.

I've downloaded VirtualDubMod and the DivX codec. I also have AviSynth, for some reason...

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:17 pm

did a search just to be sure
dvsd is the fourCC code for the panasonic dv codec...so divx won't do much for you here (I'd probably get xvid too, it can easily give better results than divx)
link to codec
unzip, right click and select install (sohould be an .inf file...looks like a notepad with a gear next to it)

Merciful Aria · Post by **Merciful Aria** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:34 pm

Thank you!

Merciful Aria · Post by **Merciful Aria** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:43 pm

Kariudo wrote:did a search just to be sure
dvsd is the fourCC code for the panasonic dv codec...so divx won't do much for you here (I'd probably get xvid too, it can easily give better results than divx)
link to codec
unzip, right click and select install (sohould be an .inf file...looks like a notepad with a gear next to it)

Oh, how do you install xVid? I've downloaded it from xvid.org, but I don't see any files that can be installed.

Merciful Aria · Post by **Merciful Aria** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:04 pm

Nevermind, I just got AMVapp. It's annoying to not be able to edit posts...

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:44 am

Kariudo wrote:dvsd is the fourCC code for the panasonic dv codec...

For correctness: dvsd is the Four CC for the DV-Codec in generell. The Panasonic DV-codec is a free available version with VfW interface, but there exist many more DV-codecs. For example, every actual Windows-PC is shipped with the Microsoft DV-codec. But it provides only a DirectShow interface, which can't be accessed by VirtualDub(Mod). It isn't necessary to install the Panasonic DV-codec to use DV-AVIs in VirtualDub if you don't want to save as DV-AVI and have installed AviSynth. With

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DirectShowSource("Path to my File")

you can open it either.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:13 am

well...google turned up results for the panasonic dv codec, and I checked the fourcc site so I thought I was safe...

I'll keep that in mind in the future

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:52 pm

ffdshow's VFW interface also has the ability to handle DV. The general rule of thumb I use is that AVISource>DirectShowSource if at all possible, mainly because AVISource is specifically designed to handle stuff like that (and so, one needs a VFW codec to use AVISource). DirectShowSource can be rather finicky at times and I'd rather not have to deal with that. About the only things I actually do use DirectShowSource for are H.264 content, WMV, and on rare occasions, RealMedia - and 99% percent of the time that's for putting it on DVD (although in H.264's case there's the option that I'm using a trailer from the Quicktime site, but I've only ever done one or two of those so the point still stands).

The files on XviD.org are source. Unless you know how to (and prefer to) compile programs those are completely useless. Koepi's site has useable versions of XviD that come with an installer. The versions on there are also newer than the ones in the AMVapp.