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Ok, so I render 180 frames in Poser as bmp (because it will not render it as a simple AVI). I open them in VirtualDub, all look fine. I set the right frame rate for me. I load an audio file. now I "Save as AVI". the program is writing my movie file. after it finishes, I open the movie file in Windows Media Player. the movie is running, I hear the sound, but I see NOTHING. there is no image. just the sound, and the cursor that shows that the movie is running. what am I doing wrong? :( p.s: is there a way to make the sound (in my case - a small wav file) to repeat itself in loop in VirtualDub?

What codec are you using to encode your video?

Sounds like a codec problem. I am not up on VirtualDub but if you get souond and there is no image it is usually a codec problem. See if the program talks about codecs and which one you need. If it is divx you can go to www.divx.com and download the codec. I just looked at the virtualdub site and it seems to point to Divx as the codec you need. Good luck! E.

thank you. i have Divx code installed... and when I go to Video---> Compression in VirtualDub, the program crashes. this happens with both 1.5.10 and 1.6.5 versions. shrug

Do you have the ASUS ASV1 codec installed? It's been known to trigger crashes in Windows NT and XP.

Here's a link to the unofficial VDub support forums:

http://forums.virtualdub.org/

You can contact VDub's creator (phaeron) from there, file bug reports, or search the forums to see if anyone has already reported similar problems.

And in answer to your other question, no, I don't believe there's a way to automatically loop the audio track within VirtualDub itself. You'll have to loop the audio file manually with a sound-editing utility, and then add it to the video.

A_ it this is an emergency, post back her or IM me if you need to get the movie done really quickly, or if you get to the end of ideas with Virtualdub. ::::: Opera ::::

I've experienced the same problem with DivX in Virtual Dub. I didn't have this problem until, I think, version 5.0 or DivX. I can't export properly at my preferred high quality settings. If they're acceptable to you, you might try the "default" DivX codec settings. Unfortunately they don't yield the highest quality results, but for smaller animations that will be displayed on a computer, they'll do. Default settings in my experience don't cause the no-video problem. I've also used the XviD codec as a trouble-free substitute, but it seems that use of that codec is not very common.

thanks for your replies. Opera - I'll let you know, but so far it's not an emergency. :) I just want to be able to create my animations as movies... :) but thatnks for the offer, that's very kind of you. I will try looking at theunoffical VirtualDub support forums. xoconostle - I'm glad I'm not alone. :) but I can't seem to even choose the codec settings... unless I'm looking in the wrong place? I am supposed to do that in Video---> Compression, right?...

Video->Compression is the right place to set up the codec you want to use. But if you have a bad codec installed on your machine when VirtualDub goes to show all the available codecs it will crash. The problem is figuring out which codec is causing your problem and disabling/uninstalling it. I'd start by looking at the crash log that VirutalDub should be making(it brings up a dump of the crash at least my version does, I haven't updated it in awhile though), it might give you a clue to the filename of the codec. (Assuming your running XP) Then I'd go into the control panel choose "Sounds and Audio Devices" on the hardware tab is a list of devices at the bottom should be "Video Codecs" bring up it's properties and go to the properties tab. This should give you a list of installed codecs. One of these is most likely your problem. Figure out which one it is and remove it. You might also want to try reinstalling media player from Microsoft. Or even uninstalling Media Player and reinstalling. Worst case remove every video codec, reinstall media player and then install Divx again.