MPEG capture does not accept MJPG codec

csb178 · Post by **csb178** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:35 am

Nature of the problem: I'm trying to capture video using MPEG but keep getting the error mentioned in teh subject line - I can capture only in avi format.

What devices are involved and their mode of connection?: I'm using a Sanyo Xacti C5 with a DV USB connection.

Output format (file, DVD, VCD, SVCD): DVD

PAL or NTSC: PAL

Error Codes (if any): 13011:5:3

I'm running WinXP Pro SP2

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:11 am

To capture straight to mpeg in DVD quality takes a powerfull machine. If you want to edit your footage, recommended format is AVI, later to be converted to mpeg for final burning to DVD.

Please give us more info on what it is you are trying to do with what type of source material on what system spec's.

csb178 · Post by **csb178** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:51 am

Heinz-Oz - thanks for the reply. Basically I'm just editing amateur vids, etc. from the pics and vids that I'm taking with my Xacti C5. I'm running WinXP Pro SP2 on a hp pavilion zt3000 laptop compter running an Intel Pentium M 1.7 GHz processor with centrino technology; 1.5 GB of RAM; 60GB HD.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:11 am

Well, I don't know your camera Xacti C5 but, from what I can gather, it must be a still camera.

What are the properties of your video clips taken with that camera? What does the manual say about capturing video via the USB port?

You say you can only capture AVI format. That doesn't actually mean a great deal. AVI is only the container and the actual clips could be in all sorts of format.

I don't think that I can actually help in this case since I got no experience with video from still cameras. Hopefully someone more converse in these matters will come along to help.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:40 am

I've searched the web and found the following description of the camera involved

The Sanyo “Xacti C5” is a stylishly thin, pocket-sized 5-megapixel digital camera and full-motion MPEG-4 video camera offering built-in digital image stabilization and a swiveling 2-inch trans-reflective LCD screen. Users can also select real-time interpolation up to 10 megapixels which allows photos to be enlarged to “bigger than life” proportions without sacrificing image fidelity

Up to one hour of high resolution VGA (640x480) @ 30fps, MPEG-4 video recording with 48 kHz, 16-bit stereo sound can be captured on an optional 1GB SD memory card.

Still images and video files recorded by the C5 can be quickly uploaded via USB to a PC or Mac for viewing, editing and sharing via e-mail. Images and video can also be played back directly to the TV, or transferred to a VCR or DVD player. A-V outputs provide for stereo audio, video and S-Video connections from the camera or the included docking station

The problem you have here is that you are working with MPEG4 video files which are an extremely highly compressed form of AVI, more so than normal MPEG2 formats.

It is not your normal camcorder as such. It is more a case of being a digital camera with the ability to take moving pictures. In fact you could liken it to those mobile phones with built in picture taking capabilities.

I have a Digital Camera and also a Digital 8 Camcorder.
My Digitial Camera can also take movies in MOV format, but they are simply something added in by the camera manufacturer as a selling point, they will never replace the camcorder.

My Camcorder can also take still pictures. Again something added in by the camera manufacturer as a selling point, they will never replace the digital camera.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:18 pm

Well put, sjj1805,

as a matter of fact, I have 2 each

For still snapshots, I use my Canon S45 compact, for photography I use my Canon EOS 350D. both of them (I think) can take video clips but I wouldn't dream of it. For video I use Panasonic. The DA1 will take stills, recorded to tape, whilst the GS 400 takes 4 MP stills on a separate SD memory card. I have used the DA1 for stills once

didn't like the quality. The GS 400 takes reasonable stills but is too slow to take them. As they say, horses for courses.

To come back to the original question asked, the so called AVI files are actually mpeg4 in an AVI wrapper. I wouldn't dream of editing those and the frame rate is not DVD compliant either, neither is the frame size I suspect. As the spec's you found state: ok to view on the PC or straight from the camera to TV, not for DVD creation.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:10 am

Buy a DVD Recorder.
Plug your camera video connections into it.
Hit Record.

Done.