Lost Video Island

[Jaime]

ok so i downloaded episodes 7, 8, and 9 from season 2 and when i opened them up in Vegas they got these green blinky lines on the bottom of the screen and they're there when you play the episode too, even though they weren't there before (right after I had downloaded them)...what the hell?!?!?!

has this happened to anyone else? and is there a way to fix it other than re-downloading the entire episodes?
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[Hobbes]

download from where, have you?

[Jaime]

http://www.livejournal.com/community/lost_eps/
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[Hobbes]

I wouldn't trust those as much then. They have to resize the eps to fit them on YSI. That means compression problems. All it takes is one codec that you have that isn't working too well, and the whole ep is kuput.
Well, it might just be codecs... .what file type are the videos? you may be abel to fix it.

[Jaime]

uh...i think 1 of them is avi and the others are wmv....?.
i hope we can fix it *crosses fingers*
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[Hobbes]

oh, wel;l if they're different types of files, I doubt that's the problem you could try downloading Windows Media Player 10, that might do the trick. Otherwie, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do.

[Jaime]

, ok
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[Jaime]

i just saw that they're all avi
...does that mean we can fix it?
also wmp always shuts off when i try to play the files....
(and i downloaded wmp10, and it's still happening)
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[Hobbes]

okay then, try downloading winamp http://www.winamp.com/
and if that doesn't work.... divx! http://www.divx.com/
One of thsoe should do the trick hopefully :
what player are you using to play those things anyway right now?

[Jaime]

WMP, but they didn't get messed up until i opened them in vegas...
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[Hobbes]

lol well if they still don't work after divx and winamp, try this file:

http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0VS4ES6LI3QHA3LF7QR49ZNKT2 oopen the bad episode in it, and change both of the FourCC things into "DIVX", then aply, and open them in Vegas to see.

mabe THAT wil work

[Jaime]

ok nothing is working so i think i'm just gonna download the episodes again and hope nothing happens to them
(that, or never make another video again)
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[Hobbes]

(go for torrent downloads. And don't you dare quit.)

[Jaime]

(but i dont like torrents, i could never get them to work...quitting is fun )
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[Hobbes]

(well, torrents would undoubtedly solve the green lines problem. On the other hand, quitting IS fun )