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“Media Offline” BUT IT GETS STRANGER!
This is really strange.
I have Sony Vegas 8, and every time I download a YouTube video in MP4 or record from my Call of Duty game play from my TV with my HDPVR and try to open it in Sony Vegas, I get the audio file but the video is all black, and at times, it says “media offline” over the video (which is all black).Files sent over from my friend that are MP4 can be read. I don’t understand. We both use the same program to download YouTube videos, and they’re both in the same format (MP4) but Vegas can’t read the ones I download, only the ones my friend downloads. He’s sent to me numerous video files in which are downloaded off of YouTube the EXACT same way, but Vegas can only show video from my friends downloads. I’ve tried unchecking “close media file when not the active application” and it still didn’t work. I’ve downloaded the “XP Codec Pack 2.5.1” from this link https://www.free-codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm as suggested from this https://forums.techguy.org/multimedia/718636-sony-vegas-media-offline-problem.html and Vegas STILL doesn’t show the video files I download.
Awfully strange.
Should I install and uninstall Vegas after downloading the codecs for it to work?
What I don’t get is the video files me and my friend has downloaded in the past WITH the same program off of the same video on YouTube are both MP4, and should be exact duplicated videos, right? Then why can’t Vegas show the video of the ones I download from YouTube but can show the video of his when he sends the file over to me? Remember, we downloaded the video off of YouTube to exact same way too..
Thank you for ANY advice! I REALLY need to get this fixed!
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3 Replies
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Each time you start Vegas, hold down the Ctrl and shift keys then right click the program and run it as administrator. In the small dialogue box that comes up, tick the box to delete cached stuff and click the ‘no’ button (else Vegas resets to defaults.).
I’ve found, since I started to do this, that I’ve never had the media not found problem again.
Hope this works for you like it did for me.
Fred
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“In the small dialogue box that comes up, tick the box to delete cached stuff and click the ‘no’ button (else Vegas resets to defaults.)”
This box doesn’t pop up :[
Thanks for the advice though
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Hmmm, perhaps this feature only exists with v9. Maybe one of the other users on this forum will know how to do the equivalent ‘cache clearout’ on your version of Vegas???
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