Video Format that blender can play.

[Joel_Filmer]

Does anyone know what Video format that blender can play other then AvI DV becuase am having problems with the video texture.

[Heavily Tessellated]

Don't make 4 threads on the same subject, you'll get yelled at...

AVI is not a format, it's a container. It's a way of storing A)udio and V)ideo I)interleave... it doesn't do anything but define how and what type of things the container holds. The format of the video is the deal. You can use RAW, and you can use MJPEG. And depending on your system and your installed codecs, you can probably use others but that's hit-or-miss.

I suggest you install a free video encoder like MPlayer1.0pre7... the command to convert your DV footage into MJPEG that Blender can use as a texture animation would go something like:

C:\MPLAYER>mencoder my_source_footage.avi -o my_blender_texture.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:mbd=1:vbitrate=1000 -oac copy

You can adjust the bitrate depending on the resolution you need, you can also convert the audio track if need be, but as it stands that command line will produce a copy of your DV footage that Blender can use as a texture animation. There's tons more options, I highly suggest reading the documentation.

[Joel_Filmer]

i kinda understand, i have a dv camcorder and when i connect it to the computer i use window movie maker to grab the clip i want from the camcorder and the format comes out DV AVI..... so how in the world do you get Raw AVI......?

[z3r0 d]

In windows blender can load whatever codes windows media player can play; you shouldn't have any issues loading dv in .avi into blender.

what are the problems you're having?

[Joel_Filmer]

Well, People keep telling me that i need a codec because blender can not take DV. AVI; people say that i need a RAw AVI format...

i Just want someone to tell me where can i find a codec at and/or a mothod i can use. i suck at exploring the internet so i dont want to download something by accident and download a virus, so if someone can pin point what they did to solve this problem of putting an DV AVI video or any video in to blender; please help.