CGTalk - Cannot open AVI....

LemonNado

01-05-2009, 02:04 PM

I rendered a large animation over the weekend and now I cannot open the .avi files.
MS Media Plaeyer reports:
"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."
and Quicktime reports a -50 unknown error....

The file(s) are 2.3GB large. And a first test with the first 10 frames was alright as test render.

Any ideas how I could figure out what the files consist out of now? I am sure I set it to .avi uncompressed. But I would not bet on the fact that I might not have set the -uncompressed- option. Now I'm kinda stranded... sighhh

Rainer

PS:Multipass render....

PPS:Is there a way to remove ALL the other options from that .avi compressor list..... A constant pita....

avgas

01-05-2009, 04:41 PM

You might try VLC player. I'm on a Mac and I always use VLC for AVIs but it's cross platform so you will find a Windows version too.

LemonNado

01-05-2009, 05:03 PM

use VLC as mentioned. though it seems like a frame might be broken, thereby ruining the whole lot.

always render out still frames and not directly to a movie, so that you can go in a fix broken frames.

I would have loved to render stills but fail to be able to select any option like that for the multi pass. The formates are not available if an animation is rendered. I managed to render a still multipass but the multipass animation generates a movie file for each pass. I chose avi uncompressed as it's as close to a bunch of images as possible. Now I have about 20GB of unreadable data..... I'll try VLC and see what that results in.

Cheers
Rainer

Srek

01-05-2009, 06:42 PM

Rainer, the problem hasn't got anything to do with CINEMA 4D (thats why i moved the thread here). The problem is the codec and the fact that filesizes beyond 2GB often pose problems like this.
I strongly recommend to only render to image sequences and assemble later.

cheers
Björn

dan1el

01-05-2009, 06:47 PM

LemonNado

01-05-2009, 07:12 PM

olson

01-05-2009, 07:33 PM

VLC says:

avi error: avi module discarded (invalid file)

22 Unusable 2.3GB files... There has to be a central problem.

Now..... how the heck can I figure out what C4D produced??? GAHHHHHHHH

51GB of garbage.... That was a lot of rendering...
I guess I have to do that again but start with some more experiments as it is obvious that C4D has a real issue here.

8((((((((((((
Rainer

Don't render into video files, render individual frames one file at a time. The only time things should be a video file is when it goes onto media or sent to clients with audio. Otherwise the rest of the pipeline should be individual frames. Cheers!