Playing AVI files

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5 total messages Started by Marc Morris Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:00

#1375

Author: Marc Morris
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:00

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I just spent ages downloading an AVI file from:

http://www.megamultimedia.com


and I can't get it to run. I have the Maczilla plug-in, so what's wrong?

I figured somebody on this news group might know...

I'm running OS8 with Netscape 4.

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Re: Playing AVI files

#1378

Author: Paul Womar
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:00

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Marc Morris <marc@vidmarc.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I just spent ages downloading an AVI file from:
> 
> http://www.megamultimedia.com
> 
> and I can't get it to run. I have the Maczilla plug-in, so what's wrong?
> 
> I figured somebody on this news group might know...
> 
> I'm running OS8 with Netscape 4.

You probably have a file that is encoded using the new Indeo codec,
there isn't any way I know to play these using MacOS.

Re: Playing AVI files

#1383

Author: Lawrence Flowers
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:00

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Marc Morris wrote:
> 
> I just spent ages downloading an AVI file from:
> 
> http://www.megamultimedia.com
> 
> and I can't get it to run. I have the Maczilla plug-in, so what's wrong?
> 
> I figured somebody on this news group might know...
> 
> I'm running OS8 with Netscape 4.

Do you have    AVI to QuickTime Utility   It works for me.  It's Freeware so I
can email you copy.  Want some?

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Re: Playing AVI files

#1386

Author: Peter Ceresole
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:00

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In article <350C4A6B.316B1904@teaftech.demon.co.uk>,
Lawrence Flowers <leaf@teaftech.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Do you have    AVI to QuickTime Utility   It works for me.  It's Freeware so I
>can email you copy.  Want some?

There are some AVIs that neither AVI to Quicktime *nor* AVI->QT (different
applications) seem to be able to handle; on the other hand, IE4.0 (and
previously IE 3.1) working with the Indeo and IntelRaw extensions, display
them fine.

I have found a couple of AVIs, downloaded from the CNN web site, which
won't load into IE (error -50 I think), bomb the machine solid when I try
to convert them with AVI->QT and yet play fine in Win95 on a Toshiba.

There's obviously more to AVIs than meets the eye. I suspect it's a moving
standard.

-- 
Peter

Re: Playing AVI files

#1431

Author: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 00:00

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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

> There's obviously more to AVIs than meets the eye. I suspect it's a moving
> standard.

AVI files can be created with any of a number of different encodings.
The particular encoding is specified in the file, and new encodings are
added at Bill's whim.  What this means is that old software won't play
new AVIs in general, although you'll get lucky sometimes.

It's not like RTF which shifts about all over the place - AVIs at least
have the decency to specify exactly which encoding is being used.

Rowland.

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