Thanks pal, but it's really nothing. When I will move to the home of the maple tree, I will take up your quarters. I'm not the biggest movie fan, usually I cut and archive the best part of a movie, then delete the rest. So I've learnt to manage this process for myself in the years. Video and picture editing is my hobby, or was, becouse there are plenty other things for me to do nowadays. Well, for the codec problem: If you've downloaded the avi version (XviD - probably with torrent) and you can play it (and not the flash version from ZG website), than you have the XviD codec installed. It's very likely, becouse there is so much XviD porn on this board too, and you're able to play them, right? So probably it's the cutting software's problem. What did you try to use? There's not so much editing software which support XviD editing without reencoding. Supporting DivX is more common. Reencoded editing is also common. I use VirtualDubMod for avi editing. It's a modded, enhanced, but somewhat simplified version (it's a discrepancy, but true) of VirtualDub. One of its main goal is handling XviD right. It's not the easiest editing software to handle, but not so complicated neither. And really a universal one. Rarely need another. If you just want to cut an XviD movie with a common audio stream, like mp3, it does the job for you without problem, right after out of the box. (AC3 and ogg may need extra VirtualDub filters.) But there are 2 important things to remember: 1. You have to set Direct stream copy in the menu: Options - Preferences - VDubMod tab - Video mode -> Direct stream copy. You have to set this only the first time, then it remembers to it. (Or every time before you save a video in the Video menu, but it's easy to forget.) Direct stream copy means: not to reencode. 2. If you got this message: VBR audio stream detected bla... bla... bla... Do you still want to rewrite the header? Yes or No? then press NO 3. You can cut the movie (without reencoding) only from keyframe to keyframe, so not from/to whichever frame you want. Usually, it's not a problem, becouse when there is a scene-change in the movie, there is a keyframe too. It may be a help for you to find scene-changes, what you usually seek, when you want to crop a scene. But the program is a little bit buggy with XviD movies: if you jump keyframes forward and then rewerse, many times it not shows the correct keyframe. But the timecode helps. (Or trial and error.) So: Open a file Seek the scene you want Move to keyframe Set the starting and the ending keyframe (Select Direct stream copy) Save as... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualDubMod http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualDub Klite codec pack is a widely use, good pack. Actually I prefer to install only the ffdshow filter instead, which handles all kind of codecs alone, and it has a plugin to VirtualDub for extra features. But Klite includes ffdshow DirectShow filters too, among many others. Good luck P.S. A few links to ffdshow, just for fun http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm "FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder." http://www.free-codecs.com/screenshots/FFD...screenshots.htm http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow "ffdshow is DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, xvid and other opensourced libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters."
