Q: I have a WinTV card, and I try to get some VHS tapes I have laying around digitizing. The WinTV 2000 application that the card works fine, but for small clips louts my computer for long clips, a few minutes or more. Thus, I downloaded Windows Media Encoder and it seemed to work well, I coded at 5 minutes clip and it created a huge honkin file of 4 GB on my hard drive. However, when I tried to copy the file in Windows Media Player, I got an error message that WMP could not play the file because it is an unsupported file format. I can play other AVI files fine. I googled this error and someone said to the avi file in Media File Editor load and I did. Viola, the editor can play the file without problems. I messed around with the options and chose “Move Scripts to Header” (I do not know what that means) and it created a 23MB file that appears to be the full 5 minutes clip that works with WMP. I think there should of course be an enormous amount of data loss to a 4GB file, compress it to 23MB. So is there anything I can do to the whole file?
Also, I would like to burn the AVI to a DVD for use in a regular DVD player VCR. I saw no way to do it in Nero 6. Nero can be used to do, or do I need another program? Thanks a lot
Re:Something's not happening right if you're getting a 4GB file from 5 minutes of video in the first place.
You could just use Movie Maker to use your TV/Caputre card. It'll encode to wmv. I think the version packaged with MCE05 also burns to DVD.
Re:Do you have the right codec for the avi file???
AVI is nothing but a holder for the codec that it uses. An AVI file can be mpeg2, mpeg4, divx, xvid, etc….
Try downloading the CCCP and then try it.
http://www.cccp-project.net/
Re:I tried Winamp and it wouldn't play either.
Re:have you tried a different player, such as realplayer or VLC
Re:Well, at least I'm not the only one confused
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