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Any help on finding a program, etc. that will understand Canon's AVI file, and allow for conversions to MPEG format? I've tried several programs, but sadly not one has been able to understand the AVI generated by our S110, even though it plays flawlessly in Media Player and Quicktime ...

If you have any ideas, or are able to point me in the right direction for some assistance I would greatly appreciate it ... thank very much!

Kind regards,

Martin
 
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Martin said:
Any help on finding a program, etc. that will understand Canon's
AVI file, and allow for conversions to MPEG format? I've tried
several programs, but sadly not one has been able to understand the
AVI generated by our S110, even though it plays flawlessly in Media
Player and Quicktime ...

If you have any ideas, or are able to point me in the right
direction for some assistance I would greatly appreciate it ...
thank very much!

Kind regards,

Martin
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VirtualDub and VideoMach can be used to rotate the movies or splice them together. Version 5.5 of Nero CD burning utility wil write a DVD-compatable VCD straight from the G1's AVI files without the need to convert them in a seperate program. Pretty cool!
Vincent Denali said:
Martin said:
Any help on finding a program, etc. that will understand Canon's
AVI file, and allow for conversions to MPEG format? I've tried
several programs, but sadly not one has been able to understand the
AVI generated by our S110, even though it plays flawlessly in Media
Player and Quicktime ...

If you have any ideas, or are able to point me in the right
direction for some assistance I would greatly appreciate it ...
thank very much!

Kind regards,

Martin
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Sorry Vincent ...

I don't check that address too often, and it seems to have lapsed ... typical HOTMAIL ... would you be kind enough to send the program to an alternate ... [email protected] ... this is a friend's address, and he'll be looking for it ...

Could you tell me a bit more about the program?

Thanks very much for doing this ... I do appreciate your help!

Kind regards,

Martin
Vincent Denali said:
For some reason my e-mail got returned? E-mail me for the program
if you'd still like it.
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It's a very, very simple program. All you do is tell it where the AVI is, and where to put the MPEG and it does it. It's slow--but we're only dealing with up to 30 second clips so that doesn't really matter.

If you decide you'd like better compression you might consider Real Player format or Windows Media Player.
Martin said:
I don't check that address too often, and it seems to have lapsed
... typical HOTMAIL ... would you be kind enough to send the
program to an alternate ... [email protected] ... this is a
friend's address, and he'll be looking for it ...

Could you tell me a bit more about the program?

Thanks very much for doing this ... I do appreciate your help!

Kind regards,

Martin
Vincent Denali said:
For some reason my e-mail got returned? E-mail me for the program
if you'd still like it.
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Thanks muchly!

I gave it a try and it works quite well ... sadly, there is one limitation that makes it difficult to use ... namely, it only supports audio sampled at certain rates ... the Canon AVIs are 11024, and the program requires 11025 to function ...

End result, using VirtualDub to change the audio bitrate works fine, but the VirtualDub also ends up producing a larger file than the original Canon AVI, so when using the program you sent me ... it accepts the file, does a great job with it, but it ends up being more or less the same size as the origninal ... partially at least, due to the fact that I had to adjust the audio and resave in an external program as opposed to just being able to use the AVI straight out of the camera ...

I'll continue to experiment, but should you or anyone have any thoughts on this oddity I would welcome your comments ...

Again, Vincent ... thank you very much for the program ... and as I said, it works great ... now if I could find some way to get it to accept 11024 instead of 11025 (wonder if this was purposely done by Canon?) or find a program that doesn't generate a larger AVI than I started with in the first place, and just upsamples the audio ... then I can make great use of the program you sent me ... (sigh) ... I'll keep at it ...

Thanks!!!

Kind regards,

Martin
Vincent Denali said:
If you decide you'd like better compression you might consider Real
Player format or Windows Media Player.
Martin said:
I don't check that address too often, and it seems to have lapsed
... typical HOTMAIL ... would you be kind enough to send the
program to an alternate ... [email protected] ... this is a
friend's address, and he'll be looking for it ...

Could you tell me a bit more about the program?

Thanks very much for doing this ... I do appreciate your help!

Kind regards,

Martin
Vincent Denali said:
For some reason my e-mail got returned? E-mail me for the program
if you'd still like it.
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If you just want a smaller file on your PC then you might try doing Real Player format (you'll need "Real Player Basic"--free) or if you want to do Windows Media you'll need "Windows Media Encoder". I know these work just fine because I did it from an S110 I was using in a store. If you're willing to try any of these let me know and I'll hook you up.
 
I'd be willing to give the Windows Media Encoder a try if you know of a place I can download it? Or send it to my friend's e-mail, if you happen to have it in a neat little package ...

Thanks again ... what's your take on the 11024 vs. 11025 limitation? Rather strange of Canon in my opinion ...

Kind regards,

Martin
Vincent Denali said:
If you just want a smaller file on your PC then you might try
doing Real Player format (you'll need "Real Player Basic"--free) or
if you want to do Windows Media you'll need "Windows Media
Encoder". I know these work just fine because I did it from an
S110 I was using in a store. If you're willing to try any of these
let me know and I'll hook you up.
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I don't know if it was intentional--it could be possibly. That's a very simple program--others could adapt to the change very easily, I bet. If they wanted to be proprietary they really would have gone with quicktime. Then again, most of the camera users don't bother trying to convert it anyway.

Here is a link to windows media encoder 7.1

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-1896417-100-6217222.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.6217222

Enjoy
Vincent
Martin said:
I'd be willing to give the Windows Media Encoder a try if you know
of a place I can download it? Or send it to my friend's e-mail, if
you happen to have it in a neat little package ...

Thanks again ... what's your take on the 11024 vs. 11025
limitation? Rather strange of Canon in my opinion ...

Kind regards,

Martin
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Sorry, but I tried the WME and it didn't work either ... invalid input file ... that's what I figured would happen considering it seems somehow proprietary ...

Don't think your file is corrupt, as the one's I'm using are still straight from the camera and haven't been corrupted in any way ... very strange ... Canon should realize that even their movie sizes are a little on the large size for e-mailing to family and friends, and should not have made it so difficult to make conversions.

Any other ideas? You seem full of 'em so far, my friend ... thanks!

Kind regards,

Martin
Vincent Denali said:
Vincent Denali said:
I just tried converting it with WMA--didn't work--it does work with
Real Producer Basic though. You can download it at

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10074-100-2033332.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.2033332
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You know Vincent, if I had thought that it would be this difficult I never would have attempted it in the first place ... thanks for ALL of your suggesttions! I gave each and every one a try, and so far the best luck I've had is using Virtual Dub to resample the 11024 audio to 11025, and then use your fine little program to convert that file to an MPEG ... as I mentioned before though, the only problem with that is that Virtual Dub does not use the same compression (codec?) as the camera, and I cannot duplicate the size/quality in Virtual Dub to allow me to actually get a smaller file in the end ... that being the whole point of course, and I think I'll post this question directly to Canon and see what kind of reply I get ...

Again, thanks very much for your continued help ... you were certainly full of some great ideas ... and should anything else pop into your mind, do not hesitate to respond ...

Kindest regards,

Martin
Vincent Denali said:
Did you try realproducer?

( http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10074-100-2033332.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.2033332 ) ?
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I'm glad to be of help Martin. Sorry I couldn't get it to work for you. I do have an actual AVI file I converted to Real Media format though. It encoded without a hitch--I'm not sure why but I'm playing it right now and it's the clip I took from Circuit City. Maybe our cameras had different firmware?
 
I took some videos using G1. I tried to make it a WMV file but Windows Media Encoder won't decode the file even I have installed a MJPEG codec to the machine. However, I have Adobe Premiere 6 which comes with a Windows Media Encoder pluggin which will convert the file. I had a couple of clips from a German Fest last Sat. Check it out

http://hottaky.com/news/germanfest/

click on "Videos" on top. I made a little Object Tag so the video plays embedded to the web page.
Martin said:
Kind regards,

Martin
Hotch said:
Martin said:
Any help on finding a program, etc. that will understand Canon's
AVI file, and allow for conversions to MPEG format?
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