Video Source not recognized?!

I must admit to being fairly new to this, but I've been trying to put a movie I have obtained from the internet in AVI format into mpeg to then put onto a VCD to to be able to watch on a stand alone player. When using TMPGEnc I am unable to open the movie file as "video source", it does, however, seem to work as "audio source" and as a result the mepgs of my first attempt were sound only- no video.
I have found all the guides available for this useful up to now but cannot find a solution to this, seemingly basic, problem.
Any ideas?

 

it seems that you need the codec for that video.

 

Hi Jpearson
Does it play in your windows media player?
When you load it up in TMPGEnc,do you have a picture in the little window while its encoding?
If the answer to those two question are no,then its probably the the video codec as shiroh mentioned.
If thats the case search google for video codecs

good luck
jim

 

Thanks for the tips. The situation is this: the file opens perfectly well with my windows media player, but cannot b recognized as a video source by TMPEGEnc, so there is no video preview there. But to be able to be opened at all it would seem I already have the codec?

 

To make a VCD of a AVI file format use NERO works all the time for me.

 

nero for encoding is evil

ok, JPearson,
when you try to load it up on tmpgenc, there is a error pop up saying unsupported format. right ?

the other ting you can do is using virtualdub. load te file up on vdub and click file, choose frameserver mode. save the file (the file will be small, it is not the video, but more like a point where the video will go to bit by bit) open tmpg and load the frameserver file.

 

In TMPGEnc, go to "Global Options" (or something like that). There's a tab that assigns priorities.

For "Direct Show" or "Direct Draw" (or something like that) raise the priority.

Sorry, at work right now so and I can't remember the exact tab names offhand.

 

hi jpearson
yeah that might work.
on your TMPGEnc go to options/enviromental settings/vfapi plugin/right click on direct show and keep doing it tell it goes up to priority 2,maybe that will fix it.Sorry it took me so long to answer,ive been away for a few days.Im guessing its an xvid avi.
good luck
jim

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ah, VFAPI plugin, i forgot about that