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Re: vfw for idl [message #35287]

Wed, 04 June 2003 14:21

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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"Reimar Bauer" wrote in message ...

> some of us have to submit powerpoint files.
> It's easy to run powerpoint in wine on a linux box.
>
> May be someone has much more experience in this as I am.
> Who knows a really simple way to convert images or mpeg1 files
> to video for windows on linux.

What do you mean by "video for windows"? AFAIK VFW is a "multimedia
enabling technology" and not a file specification so I don't think you can
convert anything to VFW.

PP plays media files by embedding an instance of Windows Media Player in
your slide. WMP uses VFW to play media files but you need to have the
correct codecs installed to do so. I have never used WINE so I don't know
that much about it but I can imagine that this could be a sticky situation.

Why do you want to convert these files? What problem(s) are you
experiencing?

-Rick

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Re: vfw for idl [message #35367 is a reply to message #35287]

Thu, 05 June 2003 10:37

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

Senior Member

Rick Towler wrote:

>
> "Reimar Bauer" wrote in message ...
>
>> some of us have to submit powerpoint files.
>> It's easy to run powerpoint in wine on a linux box.
>>
>> May be someone has much more experience in this as I am.
>> Who knows a really simple way to convert images or mpeg1 files
>> to video for windows on linux.
>
> What do you mean by "video for windows"? AFAIK VFW is a "multimedia
> enabling technology" and not a file specification so I don't think you can
> convert anything to VFW.
>
> PP plays media files by embedding an instance of Windows Media Player in
> your slide. WMP uses VFW to play media files but you need to have the
> correct codecs installed to do so. I have never used WINE so I don't know
> that much about it but I can imagine that this could be a sticky
> situation.
>
> Why do you want to convert these files? What problem(s) are you
> experiencing?

I tried writing mpeg1 by linux idl and playing these files in windows
powerpoint.
But the files could not be loaded. So I googled a lot and surely I
misunderstood VFW as a codec. Did you know which codec windows powerpoint
needs.
I need a solution which does not need additional installed codecs on the
windows platforms.

Reimar

>
>
> -Rick

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