VSX7 crashes when it opens an .avi video file edited earlier

[jcsaba]

In a home made video I successfully used an .avi video file (I edited, inserted into timeline of my own footage) which video file had been made a by a home camera and downloaded from a community sharing site. When reviewing the edited footage, VSX7 crashes when the flow of clips reaches this avi file. While earlier VSX7 had no problem with this video avi file, now it crashes if I want to have access to this file (if I click its thumbnail in the video clip library). After deleting the file from the library, I can't even import it again. What may have happened to this file? Why does my VSX7 clash with this file? The details of this video film by MediaInfo:
General
Complete name : C:\Users\Jurenka Csaba\Videos\Maszat1.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 260 MiB
Duration : 21 min 19 s
Overall bit rate : 1 705 kb/s
Writing application : Lavf54.63.104
Comment : http://www.freemake.com

Video
ID : 0
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : H264
Duration : 21 min 19 s
Bit rate : 1 438 kb/s
Width : 856 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.140
Stream size : 219 MiB (84%)
Writing library : x264 core 129
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=1 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x131 / me=dia / subme=2 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=4 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=abr / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1438 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.41 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 21 min 19 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 39.0 MiB (15%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 26 ms (0.65 video frame)
Writing library : LAME3.99.5

[lata]

Hi

The video properties look low quality given an unusual frame size of 856 x 480, although appears to be 16:9.
The data rate of 1,438kb/s is also pretty low when say Mpeg4 for YouTube would be 10000 to 15000Kbps.

The video codec seems to be AVI. H264, I viewed Video Studio and cannot do that combination.
Audio is Lame 3, that has also caused a lot of problems for video editors

Was the video recorded by your home camera? or converted using other software to upload to the community sharing site, I would expect the latter.

[jcsaba]

Hi Trevor
Thanks for the quick reply.
The video was recorded by another home camera and uploaded to YouTube from where I downloaded. I can play it with Windows Media Player, the quality is acceptable. When I imported into my Media library first, there was no problem, neither when I edited and inserted into the timeline of my project under VSX7. There was one thing: my own footage's (therefore the project's) aspect ratio is 4:3 while this video file is 16:9, so when I inserted into the timeline, I set resampling option to "fit to project size". Aspect ratio, however, doesn't matter as now I can't even import this file into the Media library of VSX7, when I click Import Media Files icon and locate the file, VSX7 simply crashes. I used several times video files of various formats downloaded from you Tube and from other sharing sites and have never experienced such thing. Should the file be in a rare format, VS always indicated that the file cannot be imported because of unknown codec etc....
I thought that this might be due to the disability of VSX7 to integrate DivX codec which I find anyway very strange. However the same thing happens when I want to open this video file with VSX5 which has got DivX codec built-in.
(I have got DivX codec downloaded onto my PC and earlier versions of VSX could "build-in" DivX. Under VSX7: share - custom - choose Microsoft AVI files - options - AVI - compression - options list doesn't include DivX 6.9.2. Codec (4 Logical CPUs) while this was the case in all earlier VSX)

Should I try to convert this video file in any other format?

[lata]

Hi

Do you know the type of video that your home camera records?

Unfortunately downloading video from YouTube will be re-coded to some format.
That type depends on the download manager used.

I found using the web browser Torch had its own download icon, top right.
That seemed to download without re-coding the video files, I think, difficult to say, but seems to do a good job.

If you downloaded the video from YT then you should be able to do again using Torch.
I am sure you will get better quality than your sample.

You can try converting the video again, but with the low quality, any conversion is gonna make that worse