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I found this old video on my computer and there's some sort of corruption? Please tell me what this is

The video format is .avi. It was recorded with an unregistered copy of Hypercam 1. I don't know exactly what kind of effect this is. Video
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How to convert camrec to mp4 using ffmpeg?

I raise such problem but in the same post I raise the solution. The first thing to know is that the .camrec format (from Camtasia) is a compressed file, so we must first decompress these files before ...
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Widely compatible video format with lossless audio

I'm a software developer. My software produces animated video files with music. The video files should be compatible with a wide range of software, and they should have excellent audio quality. The ...
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Efficiently compressing an AVI video

I have a few AVI videos of very high bit-rate ( 6.0 Second video is 72 MB in size ). I want to put these videos in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, and since there are a few 10 such videos the ...
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AviSynth vs AviSynth+ vs VapourSynth: which one should I choose?

AviSynth is an old-but-still-useful tool for processing video via script, but I’ve noticed that there is a fork called AviSynth+ that appears to have some improvements. And then there’s VapourSynth ...
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error editing a long video using VirtualDub2

I have several long video files that I need to edit (remove some initial parts, breaks and dead moments) and I always got errors when I try to save / export the edited file in mp4. The pcm_f32le: ...
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Convert a non-supported/obscure codec to a supported codec

I currently work with a team of researchers and we are obtaining data from videos that are encoded with SMB8, they are AVI files. We couldn't find anything on the SMB8 codec online unfortunately. We ...
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Security video missing time and frames

Why does a DVR or CCTV system randomly drop time or frames? I am viewing footage that says it is 12fps but, it is scanning at 10fps. These files were exported as AVI. Thanks
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Convert video files to supported formats and with correct codec to reproduce on Epson projector

I have the EPSON EH-DM3 projector and it supports the following formats only: and here are more specific info: now I'd like to be able to reproduce my videos on it by simply converting them before ...
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How to deinterlace GRAY video and convert it to .avi?

I have binary data stream from analogue camera and convert it to .avi with this λ ffmpeg -f rawvideo -pix_fmt gray -s:v 700x220 -i orbita_d.bin -c:v rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p out.avi what do I need ...
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AviSynth can't open my AVI file: "AVISource: Couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc dvds"

I simply want to open an AVI file with AviSynth and feed it into VirtualDub. However, when I open my .avs script (consisting of just one AviSource() call), I get the following error: Avisynth open ...
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Video corrupted because of force restart when capturing

I was capturing my video using Vmix Live Video Streaming & Video Mixer Software when suddenly my computer restart itself. The file was saved with size of 3GB in my local drive. I used AVI format. ...
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ffmpeg repackaging AVI (h264) into mp4 gives choppy playback in html5 video on chromium

I have file.avi which contains a h264 video: $ ffmpeg -i file.AVI Input #0, avi, from 'file.AVI': Duration: 00:00:20.61, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1530 kb/s Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main) (...
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AVI Capture in VirtualDub: MP3 Compression

I would like to capture my old VHS tapes to my HDD. I already was successful installing the xvid codec which gives me an acceptable video compression. But somehow I am not able to set audio ...
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mp4 to avi/mpeg conversion

I'm trying to convert an mp4 video to play on a digital photo frame. The photo frame (Living Image Li1210) manual states: The digital photo frame can playback MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, and AVI (dependant ...
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How to make Vegas Pro open AVI files

In using Vegas Pro 13 on a new Windows 10 computer, I find that I cannot open AVI files. It's not a codec issue; the file will not open at all because Vegas doesn't recognize it as a type of file it ...
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How to batch covert a folder of mp4 files to avi?

I'm trying to batch convert a folder of MP4 files to AVI using this script: for f in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -q:v 6 "encoded/${f%.*}.avi”; done (This is based an earlier question that was helpfully ...
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Convert mp4 to avi while keeping frame rate and quality and being able to play in QuickTime?

I'm trying to convert an mp4 file to avi. I've tried this basic ffmpeg script: ffmpeg -i inputFile.mp4 outputFile.avi It works, but: the encoded avi file is very pixelated does not work with ...
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How to extract and modify data rate and time scale from OpenDML (AVI) file

I'm working on a Python script to bulk transcode video files. These files will have different framerates, and one of the goals is to get them all to the same framerate, by making some intelligent ...
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Join multiple M4V to one file (maybe MKV?)

So I've recorded all my old Mini DV tapes to .AVI with dvgrab, then Deinterlaced them with Handbrake (Bob Method) on the High Profile but I'm left with a bunch of M4V files now (due to the 2 audio ...
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How to export a .AVI as a sequence of images in Avidemux

I'm trying to simply export every frame of an .AVI movie as a sequence of images (.tiff) or a folder of .jpeg images. This web page says I can simply select all frames in Avidemux, then go to: File -...
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How can I demux avi?

I want to demux the audio from avi files, so that the files are lossless. I tried both Yamb and Ffmpeg. Both produce files less than 1 MB (for a video of 80 MB), which are unplayable through VLC. I ...
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FFMPEG Error: Packet too small (67)

I am working with win7, FFMPEG Static from May 2016. I have frequently a bunch of strange avi files to convert by batch and got always the Error: Packet too small (67) Error while decoding stream #...
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Losslessly converting Microsoft DV to Quicktime DV

I have a bunch of AVI files containing captured DV footage (Microsoft DV, as that is what is captured through Adobe Premiere on Windows). These now need to be converted to Quicktime DV to work with ...
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Started to record over AVI file

I have an AVI file. It was an hour or so long file. Then I accidentally started recording over that same file. The old video is still there but all the video players don't see it. Is there any way to ...
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Is it possible to create a continuously looping video?

Is is possible to create a continuously looping video? Maybe by editing the container it's in so that it restarts automatically? I have a demonstration video that is playing on a TV in the lobby of ...
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How can I ensure that DaVinci Resolve will detect and/or load my .mp4 / .avi files?

New user of DaVinci Resolve, explain-like-I'm-five. =) Have installed and followed instructions for setting up Resolve 12 on my Windows 7 16gb ram computers with GeForce 760 gpu. Initially, Resolve ...
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how to convert mp4 to divx?

I have the following DVD player - http://www.lg.com/ae/video/lg-DP542 - and I want to convert my mp4 files into DivX as that is what my player supports. I tried VLC's converter and Handshake but had ...
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