mm2 won't import

[Carey Robson]

I've read the last 2,000 messages on this board and a good part of the papa
john site.

I can:
1. capture, view and play a dv avi in Adobe Premiere
2. capture and preview while capturing in MM2

I cannot:
1. play raw dv's captured in either Premiere or MM2 in Media Player
2. render these dv's in G-Spot
3. when I capture with MM2, it dies on attempting to import. However the
file is created and can be imported into Adobe Premiere.

I have three machines: P4, P3 and P4 Toshiba laptop. The P3 plays and
renders the above files. I have compared the loaded codecs and neither the
P4 nor the P3 have any that are not on the P3.

Media Player started acting funny after one of the service fixes since
October 1. Has anyone dealt with something similar successfully?

________________________
Sincerely,
Carey Robson

 

[PapaJohn]

Hi Carey,

Have you installed the Windows Media Encoder package? It installs some of
the underlying Media 9 engine stuff that MM2 doesn't.

 

[Carey Robson]

Media 9 encoder is installed.

I have three machines. I successfully capture via 1394 from a Sony camera
with PPro. The file can be viewed and manipulated within PPro. The raw file
cannot be played with MS Media Player 9 on the two machines with PPro
installed. It can be played on the machine with Prem 6.01. The file also
cannnot be directly imported as a video into Audition. I just installed,
(after the failures), DivX 5.1 - it will play the clip.

I am using XP (obviously) on 2.4 & 2.6 Intel P4's with 2GB & .5GB
respectively, (just to put the silly harware comments aside). All up to date
patches including Direct X 9.02b.

A utility called AVIcodec gives the following information of a test capture
clip:

File : 137 MB (137 MB), duration: 0:00:38, type: AVI, 1 audio stream(s),
quality: 98 %

Video : 130 MB, 28850 Kbps, 29.969 fps, 720*480 (4:3), dvsd = Sony Digital
Video, Unsupported

Audio : 6.98 MB, 1536 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x1 = PCM, Supported

And identifies the Sony codec as coming from Main Concept? The P3 with
Premiere 6.02 identifies the Video as "Supported".

The issue to me seems to be that Premiere Pro (the main Concept codec?) has
taken priority ahead of Microsoft's DV Splitter or decoder that prevents MS
Media Player and MM2 from using the file and similarly is interfering with
Audition (Cool Edit) using the file.

________________________
Sincerely,
Carey Robson

 

[PapaJohn]

GSpot not being able to render a type 1 DV-AVI file would be normal. Did you
try importing one of the test files into MM1 to see if it can handle it?