Same MPG file on two machines opens and not.

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

It may have to do with the codecs installed on your machine. There are many MPEG flavors and you may need to install a more extensive codec pack on your newer machine.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Konstantin Davidenko]

Thank you for your replay.

I think I installed some codec packs on my machine. Can you advise me “more extensive codec pack”? Or, maybe, some of them…. It would be great!

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Stick with common CODECs – Xvid stuff aren’t friendly with AE. You should let us know which CODECs are giving you issues.

Cheers
RoRK

Intensive AE & Mocha Training in Singapore and Malaysia
Adobe ACE/ACI (version 7) & Imagineer Systems Inc Approved Mocha Trainer

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

https://codecguide.com/about_kl.htm

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Konstantin Davidenko]

I don’t personally compress these videos. Here is some information about one of that kind of files:

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@High 1440
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Duration : 51mn 23s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 100 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 6 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.395
Stream size : 1.47 GiB (94%)

It’s what you ask about? Or something else?

[Konstantin Davidenko]

I tried to install both “Mega” and “64-bit” packs, but still files in AE won’t work… =(

[Thomas Leong]

The K-Lite Mega Pack also provides G-spot which will provide more info on the codec used in your media. If you can’t find G-Spot in the Start Menu > Programs, then look for it in the K-Lite folder under C:Program Files or Program File (x86).

Once you know the codec used to encode your media, you can google for the codec.

[Konstantin Davidenko]

I can’t find any G-spot there, but there is “MediaInfo”. It returns that:

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@High 1440
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Duration : 51mn 23s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 100 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 6 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.395
Stream size : 1.47 GiB (94%)

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Did you restart your computer after installing the new CODECs? Further, the file is 52+ minutes which is kinda long for normal AE work. See if PPro or AME are able to ingest the file. If this is possible, either transcode the entire file to another CODEC (although storage requirements will be extremely high) or transcode just the part(s) that you need.

HTH
RoRK

Intensive AE & Mocha Training in Singapore and Malaysia
Adobe ACE/ACI (version 7) & Imagineer Systems Inc Approved Mocha Trainer

[Konstantin Davidenko]

Ow… Thanks you! Yes, I restarted my PC few times. I’ve never done anything of what you told me to. I’ll try to google how to do that.

Thanks you again!