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Recording Saved as .AVI, .WAV, .TXT, Unmerged - Help?
After recording a full-screen capture of my computer earlier today (using Lossless Codec and CS v. 2.6), it never merged the three files together like it always does with other ones. Now, the .AVI alone is 1.89 GB, the .WAV is 2.52 MB, and the .TXT is 67 B. Also, the .AVI doesn't display a length, but the .WAV does (00:27:20). The .AVI won't open with any program I've read about so far on here, or the ones I already had [I've tried VirtualDub, WMP, WMM, RealPlayer, QuickTime, Pinnacle VideoSpin, DivX Plus, GordianKnot, ffmpeg (which admittedly I couldn't completely figure out how to use), Microsoft Expressions Encoder, Format Factory, and DivFix++, as far as I can recall]. I can get the .WAV to play, but only about 15 seconds of it plays when I open it for some reason. As for the .TXT, it just says "2.6<\version>294<\release><\recorder>" when I open it. My theory is that somehow the overall file was going to be over 2 GB, so it didn't save, but really I'm just guessing. I'm not too worried about the sound, but I'd really like to salvage the video if possible. Any ideas, or is it likely lost? I'm starting to believe the former is true, but I wanted to ask here before I give up. If any other info is needed, just let me know and I'll try to tell you.
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Here is a video that points to how to get started with VirtualDub to try to fix this. If it is too far over size, even this won't work. If not, try MediaCoder as mentioned in this thread: http://camstudio.org/forum/discussion/1049/2gb-file-limit-workarounds/p1
Forget the lossless codec unless you really NEED archival quality footage. Jawor's Xvid works much better and allows nice, long recordings.
See this video's "more info" area for lots of links:
Let me know what issues or luck that you have.
Terry
I just remembered seeing this repair trick: http://camstudio.org/forum/discussion/comment/3580#Comment_3580
It requires FFMPEG which you can download from Sourceforge.
Let me know if you have any luck with that!
Terry
Terry
From the Start menu, type cmd, hit enter and start up the command prompt window first, then type in the FFMPEG commands. The window should stick around then!
Perhaps I'll try this and make a video this weekend. Stay tuned for that. Meanwhile, if you do succeed, perhaps you can make a video of what you did that worked. :-)
Terry
EDIT: Hey, I managed to figure out how to use it, at last! I'm now in the process of trying to figure out how to convert, I'll update again in a little while.
c:\file-path-to-ffmpeg\ffmpeg -i "c:\file-path-to-video-file\filename.avi" -vcodec copy "c:\file-path-to-where-you-want-to-save-it\filename.avi"
Let me know if that works!
Terry
Terry
Thanks for the compliments... though I'm only on par with many of my experiences with other open-source efforts and their support folks (usually always a small number of dedicated helpers - and CamStudio is worth the effort IMHO!)
Did you try downloading MediaCoder and trying that? It was mentioned in this thread:
http://camstudio.org/forum/discussion/1049/2gb-file-limit-workarounds
MediaCoder has two editions - and the FLV version allows batches (or it used to) without having to pay for a license. Here are both links for that:
http://www.mediacoderhq.com/flv-converter/
http://www.mediacoderhq.com/index.htm
The FLV version also produces MPEG-4 videos. I needed to adjust the H.264 profile to Baseline from the Settings button to get Windows Media Player to work!
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Terry