AVI Trouble - PLEASE HELP!!
tom...@interaccess.com
on my Mac (Performa 6400/180 with Sys 8.1)? I have used the "AVI-to-QT
Utility" to open some of them but after trying to convert some .avi
files, I get an error stating that "the video is compressed with unknown
methods."
I have also tried other utilities like "Vid4Win 2 QT", "VFW Converter"
and "MakeItMoov" but I still have .avi files that PC owners have given
to me that I can't open! Do you have any suggestions? I checked the
net to make sure that I have the most recent versions of all of these
utilities (including sys. extensions) and all of my apps are as current
as everything out there. Please help!!
Thanks in advance.
T.
Hes Nikke
if you download and install quick time 4 your problems will be fixed, the
codec the you are having a problem with is "Intel Indeo Video" and to
decompress it, it "requires a Pentiem(sp) 1 or better" lol
apple fixed this in the late beta cycle and enabled this codec on Macs.
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>Does anyone know why I am able to convert SOME .avi files and open them
>on my Mac (Performa 6400/180 with Sys 8.1)? I have used the "AVI-to-QT
>Utility" to open some of them but after trying to convert some .avi
>files, I get an error stating that "the video is compressed with unknown
>methods."
>
>I have also tried other utilities like "Vid4Win 2 QT", "VFW Converter"
>and "MakeItMoov" but I still have .avi files that PC owners have given
>to me that I can't open! Do you have any suggestions? I checked the
>net to make sure that I have the most recent versions of all of these
>utilities (including sys. extensions) and all of my apps are as current
>as everything out there. Please help!!
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>T.
You shouldn't need to use Vid4Win 2 QT or AVI 2 QT or MakeItMoov, etc, if
you've got QT3 or 4. The MoviePlayer/QuickTime Player that ship with QT3 &
QT4 can open AVI's directly. The only problem will be if you don't have
the codecs used by the movies. There are a handfull of extensions you
should have to make sure you've got most of the PC/Video4Winblows codecs
covered:
Indeo® Video
Indeo® Video 4
Indeo® Video5
Intel Raw Video
Windows Compressors
Hope this helps.
Matthew Pritzker
>
> Does anyone know why I am able to convert SOME .avi files and open them
> on my Mac (Performa 6400/180 with Sys 8.1)? I have used the "AVI-to-QT
> Utility" to open some of them but after trying to convert some .avi
> files, I get an error stating that "the video is compressed with unknown
> methods."
>
> I have also tried other utilities like "Vid4Win 2 QT", "VFW Converter"
> and "MakeItMoov" but I still have .avi files that PC owners have given
> to me that I can't open! Do you have any suggestions? I checked the
> net to make sure that I have the most recent versions of all of these
> utilities (including sys. extensions) and all of my apps are as current
> as everything out there. Please help!!
I think there's more than one compression format represented by the AVI
extension; eg, Indeo 4.4 vs Indeo 5.0. You probably have a plug-in for
QuickTime that supports some AVI schemes but not the newest ones.
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