VS6 Error, Warning: Nothing to output bframe decoder lag?

mollyda1 · Post by **mollyda1** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:53 am

what do i have to do?, i can't view any of my avi files from my camera, it just comesd up with Warning:nothing to output bframe decoder lag.

pleeese help me quick!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:50 am

Well, if you gave us more information than an error message, we might be able to offer suggestions. What kind of camera -- digital, analogue? How is it connected to the computer? Are they the DV version of AVI video, or uncompressed video? What were the capture properties in VS 6? What are your computer specifications? We will only be able to 'help you quick' if you can quickly provide this sort of information... We are not mind readers....

mollyda1 · Post by **mollyda1** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:09 am

ok sorry, well my camera is a dv digital camera not analog and is connected to the computer via usb, it is compressed in xvid fromat. The computer is a celeron 1.8GHZ with 512MB ram and a 40gig harddrive with NVIDIA Gforce 2 mmx graphics card. The monitor is a 17" Viewmaster monitor and the capture properties in VS6 are just avi settings. When i press play, to playback the whole movie it just comes up with an error box with nothing in it just an alert sign and the box being titled ulead video studio 6se, i don't even get to view the movie!

does that help?thanks.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:52 am

There are a couple of things not quite right about your response. In the first place, if your camera is a standard DV model (not a very recent high end one), it should not be connected to your computer via USB. That will at best only give you poor, streaming video quality. You should be using Firewire/ iLink for high quality digital video transfer to your computer -- though of course you must have a Firewire port/card on your computer.

Second, you say "it" is compressed in xvid format -- I assume you mean the video you are trying to watch. Well, how did it get into xvid format, which is a particular version of mpeg-4 and VS6 cannot play or process mpeg-4. You would need to upgrade to VS9 and then download the free mpeg-4 plug-in for that (though I am not sure if that plug-in can actually deal with xvid either... Someone else may be able to help on that point.)

Finally, you say that your capture setting "are just avi settings". I don't know what that means, let alone how it sits with "it" being compressed in xvid format. (I admit, though, that it could be an xvid with the extension .avi as the carrier format.) However, if it is not, then we need to know exactly what your "just avi settings" are exactly.

At any rate, if you are trying to open or play an xvid video in VS 6, it would be not wonder that you got an error message.