Okay, using FRAPS I created a 3 gig avi of a Half-Life demo. So I go to VirtualDub to compress this. I selected Xvid as the compression (2pass 1st pass) and it creates an avi. I double click it? No video. Huh? So I open that avi with Gspot and it says I have the codecs. What's up with that? I tried Divx? Same thing. I try DivX 5 something and it's not working. I tried DivX ;-) Mpeg 4 Fast Motion and it does playback in VLC and PowerDVD. Wtf... Why am I having problems with XviD? If I use Xvid twopass - 2nd pass it works but the compression is crap or the quality is useless. You can hardly make anything out. I was using mostly default encoding settings. I've been uninstalling codecs left and right and reinstalling the latest Xvid, ffdshow, etc. Tried codec packs, tried using BigFix1.6b to remove everything, tried every I could think of. It's always the same. Why can't I encode with Xvid?
For your first pass ----------------------- Profile @ Level |AS @ L5| Encoding Type |Twopass-1st pass| Advanced Options |Motion search precision:6 Ultra High| ------------------------ Second Pass Profile @ Level |AS @ L5| Encoding Type |Twopass-2st pass| Bitrate Above 850kbps+ so it will look average Advanced Options |Motion search precision:6 Ultra High| IF that doesn't work you will have to frame serve the avi file.
