| Re: Some AVI bother... [message #60118 is a reply to message #60052] |
Wed, 30 April 2008 06:15  |
Peter Clinch
Messages: 98 Registered: April 1996
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Peter Clinch wrote:
> Following my dumb Q about MPEGs a couple of days ago it was suggested
> I'd be better off with AVIs, so I've moved on to AVIs and picked up Ronn
> Kling's AVI code from http://www.kilvarock.com./freesoftware/dlms/dlms.htm
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> It seems to do the generate test okay, and subsequently read back the
> avi it generated, but everything goes pear-shaped and IDL crashes
> horribly if I try to import a short AVI I've just saved from a movie
> capture program called PowerDirector, using the maximum quality option.
> That movie plays okay in VLC and Windows Media Player.
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> It falls over reproducibly on different machines, and as well as 7.0 I
> loaded up a copy of 6.3 just to make sure nothing had changed in IDL to
> break it.
never did fix it, despite trying lots of alternative codecs and options,
so who knows...? However, I did find an alternative which is an AVI
reader for ImageJ which lets me save everything out as individual
images, so it's one step extra but /relatively/ painless and if anyone
else is suffering with AVIs this is one way around.
With a bit of luck Ron's revised version will help troubleshoot it when
it's out.
Pete.
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