[Richard Boyle]

The movie in question was originally a series of different movies, some in AVI format, some I only had the original DVDs (archival films etc) and some were originally MKV files. I converted them all to AVI using River Past Video Cleaner Pro, with the lagarith codec.
The machine I originally edited them on was a nice new Core i7 beast, but for the display I am unfortunately limited to an AMD 4200 machine with an nvidia 8400 video card. It’s the only machine that will fit in the available space at the museum. The film is 30 mins long and takes up 42gb under this setting (it’s in 720 format)
I have rendered these files as AVI under Lagarith, but they play very slowly though the sound plays normal speed on teh target machine. I’ve tried using h264, but I keep getting very noticeble banding and pixel blocks in the video. I’ve tried several other settings and codecs, but with limited success.
So now I have turned to MKV. I realize it’s just a container, but it seems to offer excellent quality and may well give me what I want.
Unless you have any other suggestions.
The reason I am running this on a computer is because it’s part of a kiosk. I suppose I could run this on the core i7 machine but it’s my editing machine, it’s rather expensive for a video kiosk and I’d have to do a ton of rebuilding.
Thanks for any help you may offer.

[Richard Boyle]

Apologies. It will be for display on a computer so I am open to pretty much any format. I’d just rather not have to deal with enormous file sizes. I rendered it once and it filled up the hard drive. Even my core i7 machine was struggling to maintain decent framerates with that amount of data.
The machine it will be playing on will be much lower spec, but certainly adequate (Athlon X2 6000, 2gb RAM, nv780 chipset, 320 gb HDD, XP).

[Richard Boyle]

Thanks for the answer. I tried ffdshow but the quality was awful. It’s interesting but some movies have the same gap when imported into Vegas no matter how I encode them. Yet they still play perfectly elsewhere.
I’ve never heard of Lagarith or Huffyuv but I gave them a whirl. Nice fast encoding, especially with Lagarith, but I still have the same problem. Which video converion software do you recommend? I’ve tried several and RiverPast Video Cleaner Pro seems the best I’ve come accross though it can be a little temperamental at times. Since the problem appears atthe same point in the movie every time I thinking it may be some sort of peculiar reaction between RiverPast encoded movies and Vegas.

Thanks for the pointers, I really appreciate it!