Sharpcap2

[Craigyboy3542]

Hey all

I am using Sharpcap2 with a QHYL-5ii but when I try to open the AVI video files they error. Can anyone give me some advise?

Craig

[daz]

What is the error?

And what software is giving the error?

[Craigyboy3542]

Sorry should have put the errors i was getting in the OP

The file just won't open at all in Registax   just sticks at 67% loaded

And i get the following error messages in other programs

Windows media play

VLC player

[cgarry]

Hi Craig,

You can try running the AVI through PIPP to repair it.  Though I have seen Registax fail on larger AVI frames in the past and never really got to the bottom of it.  You have a couple of obvious options:

(1) Use AS!2 instead of Registax for stacking.

(2) Reduce the number of frames (quality selection) and size of the frames (frame cropping) using PIPP and run this file through Registax.  Example here.

Cheers,

Chris

[Craigyboy3542]

Hi Craig,

You can try running the AVI through PIPP to repair it.  Though I have seen Registax fail on larger AVI frames in the past and never really got to the bottom of it.  You have a couple of obvious options:

(1) Use AS!2 instead of Registax for stacking.

(2) Reduce the number of frames (quality selection) and size of the frames (frame cropping) using PIPP and run this file through Registax.  Example here.

Cheers,

Chris

Thanks Chris 

That seems to have got it working to run through Registax i will have a look at ASI2  

Craig

[cgarry]

That is good news.  It is worth getting up to speed with AS!2 as most people do their planetary video stacking in AS!2 and then move onto Registax 6 for the wavelet function.

Chris

[jsmoraes]

I am having MANY troubles with Sharpcap 2.5 and ASI120MC. It doesn't work well with my netbook dual core 1.0 Gbytes of memory. It crashs, the movie has bad frames (none adjust solve this issue), The main window has crazy behavior: if I want move up and down the menu with mouse, it changes de value of some slider. If I want change the value of a slider ... it moves up and dow with the menu !

About your problem with AVI, I think that it is because of RAW 8 bits that Sharpcap can do. I think that Windows Media Player doesn't like RAW.

For me, the best Media Player, that has codec for all kind of movie and it is very easy to use is MPC-HC from http://mpc-hc.org . From AVI to MOV and others !