DV Format AVI handling is useless

[MartinImber]

Hello

I have been trying to play back some AVIs on the PC and they are very stuttery and the sound is as bad.

I tried Ulead Video Studio 9 and that suffers the same way while using DV format AVIs.

Does anyone have any ideas why DV format AVI playback is useless?

MPEG2 and MPEG4 are fine

Originally Posted by installed codecs in System Information

c:\windows\system32\divx.dll DivX, Inc. DivX 6.7.0 Codec OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\DIVX.DLL 6.7.0.28 722.50 KB (739,840 bytes) 17/09/2007 19:22
c:\windows\system32\geocodec.dll GeoVision OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\GEOCODEC.DLL 7, 0, 0, 0 416.00 KB (425,984 bytes) 27/06/2007 18:20
c:\windows\system32\iccvid.dll Radius Inc. iccvid.dll OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\ICCVID.DLL 1.10.0.11 78.50 KB (80,384 bytes) 29/08/2002 13:00
c:\windows\system32\ir32_32.dll Intel(R) Corporation ir32_32.dll OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\IR32_32.DLL Not Available 194.50 KB (199,168 bytes) 29/08/2002 13:00
c:\windows\system32\ir41_32.ax Intel Corporation ir41_32.ax OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\IR41_32.AX 4.51.16.03 828.50 KB (848,384 bytes) 14/11/2002 11:58
c:\windows\system32\ir50_32.dll Intel Corporation Indeo® video 5.10 OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\IR50_32.DLL R.5.10.15.2.55 737.50 KB (755,200 bytes) 14/11/2002 11:58
c:\windows\system32\iyuv_32.dll Microsoft Corporation iyuv_32.dll OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\IYUV_32.DLL 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) 46.50 KB (47,616 bytes) 18/06/2004 17:54
c:\windows\system32\mpg4c32.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MPG4C32.DLL 4.1.00.3920 410.39 KB (420,240 bytes) 15/06/2004 22:19
c:\windows\system32\msh261.drv Microsoft Corporation msh261.drv OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSH261.DRV 5.1.2600.2180 184.00 KB (188,416 bytes) 15/06/2004 21:28
c:\windows\system32\msh263.drv Microsoft Corporation msh263.drv OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSH263.DRV 5.1.2600.2180 288.00 KB (294,912 bytes) 18/06/2004 17:54
c:\windows\system32\msrle32.dll Microsoft Corporation msrle32.dll OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSRLE32.DLL 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) 11.00 KB (11,264 bytes) 29/08/2002 13:00
c:\windows\system32\msvidc32.dll Microsoft Corporation msvidc32.dll OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVIDC32.DLL 5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148) 25.00 KB (25,600 bytes) 29/08/2002 13:00
c:\windows\system32\msyuv.dll Microsoft Corporation msyuv.dll OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSYUV.DLL 5.3.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) 17.00 KB (17,408 bytes) 16/06/2004 22:37
c:\windows\system32\tsbyuv.dll Microsoft Corporation tsbyuv.dll OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\TSBYUV.DLL 5.1.2600.0 (XPClient.010817-1148) 8.00 KB (8,192 bytes) 18/06/2004 17:54
c:\windows\system32\xvidvfw.dll Not Available XviD MPEG-4 Video Codec OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\XVIDVFW.DLL Not Available 176.00 KB (180,224 bytes) 05/09/2004 09:59

Originally Posted by GSPOT - DV Video Decoders

DSH 4CC DVSD
DSH Friendly Name DV Video Decoder
DSH Driver or Wrapper C:\WINDOWS\system32\qdv.dll
DSH DirectShow CLSID CLSID_DVVideoCodec {B1B77C00-C3E4-11CF-AF79-00AA00B67A42}
GRF Name DV Video Decoder
GRF Driver C:\WINDOWS\system32\qdv.dll
GRF DirectShow CLSID CLSID_DVVideoCodec {B1B77C00-C3E4-11CF-AF79-00AA00B67A42}
GRF Input Pin pin 0 name XForm In
GRF Input Pin 0 Media Type (major) MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
GRF Input Pin 0 Media Type (subtype) MEDIASUBTYPE_dvsd {64737664-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
GRF Output Pin pin 0 name XForm Out
GRF Output Pin 0 Media Type (major) MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
GRF Output Pin 0 Media Type (subtype) MEDIASUBTYPE_YUY2 {32595559-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
REG Additional Media Type 01 MEDIASUBTYPE_dvsd
REG Additional Media Type 02 4cc: dvc

[JH4]

That's a very old version of Ulead Video Studio. It's up to version 11.5 Plus now, which will do pretty well everything - including all HD formats. That should work fine for you, I reckon, if your PC is up to it.

[MartinImber]

Well it was fine about two months or so ago and the only changes are extra RAM and cleaning out a failed anti virus deinstall.

As to Ulead 11.x my PC has a P4 2.4 with 1GB of RAM

[dejongj]

If it is raw DV it is uncompressed and you should have any problem with it at all, that is unless your hard drive is to slow for the amount of data it is on.....You really need to have a 5400rpm or ideally higher.....

[MartinImber]

Originally Posted by dejongj

If it is raw DV it is uncompressed and you should have any problem with it at all, that is unless your hard drive is to slow for the amount of data it is on.....You really need to have a 5400rpm or ideally higher.....

It is the normal 5x compressed DV rather than raw, same as found on DV cameras.

Uses quartz.dll and qdv.dll it seems

[MartinImber]

Looks like new HDD and reinstall windows!!!!

[MartinImber]

Found it

Drive had changes from Ultra DMA 5 to PIO

[dejongj]

I'm glad I was able to point in the right direction

[MartinImber]

Originally Posted by dejongj

I'm glad I was able to point in the right direction

It did help - I thought that D: was fast - it was but the IDE speed had dropped, C: was still DMA 5