Cannot start video compression VirtualDub Error

Asked By ShawnCampbell 0 points N/A Posted on - 08/14/2011

In order to easily watch a movie over the web, I usually compress the size of a video file. I have Windows Movie maker installed on windows XP machine for the same.

I perform the following action on a Video file and get an error message. I open the program, Click on Import Video, later I select the file, drag it down to the location and then when I click on save action, a dialog box pop’s up.

Hope the above information helps you to find a solution for my error.

VirtualDub Error

Cannot start video compression:

The source image format is not acceptable.

(error code -2)

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Answered By AngusM 0 points N/A #115056

Cannot start video compression VirtualDub Error

Hi Shawn Campbell,

Can you provide some info on what file you were trying to compress when the error showed up?

"Cannot start video compression: The source image format is not acceptable. (error code -2)" indicates that the format of the video you are trying to process with VirtualDub is unsupported. For starters, please download and install the latest VirtualDub from here:

(https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/?source=dlp)

Another, more practical suggestion I can give is to switch to other user-friendly video conversion apps such as:

Freemake Video Converter, SUPER, iWisoft Free Video Converter, or Format Factory.

The above applications are all excellent choices, are more user-friendly than Virtualdub and are totally free.

Hope this helps!

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Answered By Karla Mahamad 0 points N/A #196466

Cannot start video compression VirtualDub Error

Hello,

I encountered the same error on Windows 98. I was finally able to figure out that I was setting up Xvid and was never actually choosing the stats file which was trying to use an incomplete one.

I was not used to the new GUI of the codec. It puts the stats file settings under advanced options but not up front where they used to be.

I hope this information is helpful.

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