VS9; Unable to capture, unable to import files created with

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:41 am

Hi all

I hope someone can help me with this. I am busy consulting by email with tech support but am looking for additional help. I have upgraded by download from VS SE7 to VS9. Since then, I have had 2 problems, which may or may not be linked to each other;

1) I can import files into the library fine, UNLESS they are files that were uploaded to my pc from my camcorder previously, using VS SE7. When I try to import those files, (any of them, all AVI) I get a message saying they are not accessible. When i try to run them in realplayer or windows media player vers10, I get a message to say they can't be played (and they search for a codec on the net) No codec is found and only the audio plays. When i try to open them by importing to Windows Movie Maker, the message says the codec is missing.

If I open a previously created (VS SE7) VSP in VS9, all looks fine except then when it plays, I don't get the video clips, just the audio, titles, and added music (I get everything but the video in other words)

2) I am unable to capture any footage from my DV cam in VS9. My cam is detected and i can play/fwd/rew etc, but the video is not captured. message says "unable to switch to capture mode. Check if your video capture driver is working properly. Failed to build a preview graph." I have checked my capture driver on device manager and it appears fine, as does my dv cam driver.

Hope theres enough here for someone to help me with this, very fruestrating problem .

I am running Windows XP pro, 100gig HDD, plenty of RAM etc. All worked fine with VS7 so do not think it is a system resource issue. My cam is a Samsung VP D103i

thanks

Stretch

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:25 pm

The DV codec on your system is either missing, or the registration information is damaged.

Try using Start -> Run, and enter the following:

REGSVR32 QDV.DLL

That will re-register the Microsoft DV codec. If this is successful, you should see a dialog saying "DllRegisterServer in QDV.DLL succeeded."

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:33 am

It worked! Thank you very much for your help.

nappen · Post by **nappen** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:36 pm

Will this also fix issue number two above. I am having that same problem with the trial version (don't want to buy if I can't import video). I am an XP Media Center and a Dual TV Tuner.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:18 pm

That depends. He wasn't able to capture using the DV format because the codec that's needed to create the AVI file wasn't registered. There are other possible causes that could prevent DV capturing.

If you aren't capturing to DV AVI format, then this doesn't apply to you. If you provide more information about your problem (in anothe thread, please), we should be able to straighten this out.