Weird mpeg files from Sony DVD HCam & Pixela?

[Guest]

Hi

I have seen a couple of posts on issues with Sony DVD Handycams - really great units, but I have found problems with MM2 to be very frustrating.

My understanding is that they come with a USB connection only and that MM2 cannot capture from the camera. So I have been capturing using Pixela Imagemixer (v1.5), supplied with the camera, through a USB. Each clip comes through as an mpeg file. These play fine in Imagemixer - and also in WinDVD (v4). However, these files crashed Windows Media Player due to conflicts with iviaudio.ax & ivivideo.ax from WinDVD (I think). Fixed that by uninstalling WinDVD & renaming these files

Now they play in WMP but freeze every so often for 10 or more seconds before continuing. Each file always freezes in the same place - but it is different for every file. In MM2 collections, thumbnail pictures from the video show up okay - but when I play in the preview window I get sound but no video

I have WMP9 & latest DirectX & drivers for my nVidia card running on a P4 (2.8 GHz). Changing hardware acceleration has not fixed the problems. I don't know if this is a problem with my system - or the result of weirdness in the mpeg files from the Imagemixer software

Can anyone give me any clues????

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Movie Maker wasn't made to work with MPEG2 files.... you should use the Sony
provided software to convert the files to AVI for use in MM2.

See the Digital Camcorders > Sony page of my site.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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Hi,

I have seen a couple of posts on issues with Sony DVD Handycams - really

great units, but I have found problems with MM2 to be very frustrating.

My understanding is that they come with a USB connection only and that MM2

cannot capture from the camera. So I have been capturing using Pixela
Imagemixer (v1.5), supplied with the camera, through a USB. Each clip comes
through as an mpeg file. These play fine in Imagemixer - and also in WinDVD
(v4). However, these files crashed Windows Media Player due to conflicts
with iviaudio.ax & ivivideo.ax from WinDVD (I think). Fixed that by
uninstalling WinDVD & renaming these files.

Now they play in WMP but freeze every so often for 10 or more seconds

before continuing. Each file always freezes in the same place - but it is
different for every file. In MM2 collections, thumbnail pictures from the
video show up okay - but when I play in the preview window I get sound but
no video.

I have WMP9 & latest DirectX & drivers for my nVidia card running on a P4

(2.8 GHz). Changing hardware acceleration has not fixed the problems. I
don't know if this is a problem with my system - or the result of weirdness
in the mpeg files from the Imagemixer software.

 

[Guest]

Thanks PapaJohn - this has fixed it. You really are "MV"

For those of you playing at home....
Right click video thumbnail in Imagemixer and choose "export as movie" - export to DV/AVI. Click the first of the check boxes for resize options (not the second or both) - otherwise there are problems with aspect ratio (on my machine anyway). The AVI files work a treat in MM2.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Thanks Dave.... I'll be adding your notes to the website.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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Thanks PapaJohn - this has fixed it. You really are "MV".

For those of you playing at home.....
Right click video thumbnail in Imagemixer and choose "export as movie" -

export to DV/AVI. Click the first of the check boxes for resize options
(not the second or both) - otherwise there are problems with aspect ratio
(on my machine anyway). The AVI files work a treat in MM2.