RE: dvgrab

[Bryan S. <ar...@ve...>]

Nope, neither Microsoft Media Player or ULead VideoStudio worked.  They
both in fact created the same screwed up picture.  The movie plays, but
the picture is screwed and audio is just a hiss.

Go to http://www.verinet.com/~arcane/screwedup.jpg to see what the picture
looks like.  You can definately tell that it's rendering some parts
correctly, but they're in weird places...

It might have something to do with when I compiled everything.  I ran into
a problem compiling dvgrab and had to update a few libraries.  The
standard compiler in Debian now is egcs based, and for me it dies of an
internal compiler error when compiling the kernel.  I was using the older
compiler, but I think dvgrab required g++ so I had to install the latest
stuff.

Thanks for any help,
Bryan

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Arne Schirmacher wrote:

> An AVI file is actually a sort of container that can contain lots of different 
> file formats. It has a field that tells which decoder is required for playing 
> this particular file type. If the player program does not know about the file 
> type, it can't display the movie.
> 
> Currently there is no AVI player for Linux that can decode the AVI DV format.
> 
> You can use the Microsoft media player to play back your AVI file. In case it 
> does not recognize the file format either, try installing the video editing 
> software that came with your card. If you don't have software, download the 
> demo version of ULead VideoStudio (the media player extensions are not time 
> limited).
> 
> I am not aware of any converter programs for MS Windows, but there should be 
> alot.
> 
> If everything fails (but I don't think so), drop me a note.
> 
> Happy grabbing.... Arne
>