I have a digital camera (Canon PowerShot G9) that saves videos as AVI with Motion JPEG compression. The videos play back just fine on my PC, outside of Blender, but when I try to import them into the Video Sequence Editor in Blender 2.46, it cannot read anything past the first frame. I keep getting “Error reading frame from AVI” in my console (see console messages at the bottom).
I HATE these kinds of problems because I am clueless about codecs, video formats, and pretty much anything related to the final output of the video. This is what made me take a long break from Blender about 2 years ago, despite all the cool stuff I had learned. ERGH.
I got the latest version of Virtual Dub and simply resaved the original AVI as another AVI, without even tweaking any settings, and it worked. The only problem is that a short video that was 10 MEG in size suddenly jumped to 155 MEG (without any gain in quality of course). Is there ANY way to keep the filesize down while still having it play back in Blender? What codec should I choose in Virtual Dub? What can I do? (Please be specific – I’ve been googling and searching this forum all afternoon and cannot find anything that really helps.)
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Input #0, avi, from ‘c:[censored].avi’:
Duration: 00:00:05.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 15611 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj422p, 640x480, 30.00 tb®
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, mono, 705 kb/s
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