Compress AVI for ImageJ

[Peter Paul Arlinghaus]

Dear all,

I have to analyse big Video files. About 1-3GB. This is to
big for ImageJ.

I'm using Ubuntu. I already tried winff and avidemux. And
ist was possible to get the videos small enough, and still
to have good quality.

But ImageJ always say that this compression can't be read.
And I have tried several. How can I fix this ? which
compression does ImageJ accept ?


Thanks a lot !

Peter

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[Michael Schmid]

On Dec 4, 2014, at 00:44, Peter Paul Arlinghaus wrote:

> I have to analyse big Video files. About 1-3GB. This is to big for ImageJ.

Hi Peter,

If you open an (uncompressed) AVI as virtual stack, the file size does not matter, it only keeps the frame currently visible in memory. You can then view the video and perform read-only operations, such as "Analyze Particles"
An alternative: Read only part of the video (the AVI import dialog has an option to select which frames), and process it in parts.

> I'm using Ubuntu. I already tried winff and avidemux. And ist was possible to get the videos small enough, and still to have good quality.

If you want to process the whole video in ImageJ: As soon as any operations modify the frames, ImageJ must load everything into memory. In that case it won't help to compress the video on disk, because it must be uncompressed as soon as it is in ImageJ.

> But ImageJ always say that this compression can't be read. And I have tried several. How can I fix this ? which compression does ImageJ accept ?

Plain ImageJ only accepts very few compression techniques, to keep the code simple and partly related to licensing/copyright issues, but also because compression causes artifacts that should be avoided in scientific image processing.

Plain ImageJ supports the following types:
- Raw video with 8-bit or 16-bit grayscale and RGB (3 * 8 = 24 bits/pxl)
- Various color ('chroma') subsampling types, because frame grabbers or cameras often deliver these as raw format (Y422, YUYV, I420, NV12, and the like)
- PNG or JPEG compression of individual frames (the latter is also known as MJPG).

Michael

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[Peter Paul Arlinghaus]

Hello Michael,

thanks for your help ! Yes, I already have gotten the tip
to use vitual stack. And it worked.

Beste regrds

Peter


On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 11:00:49 +0100
  Michael Schmid <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Dec 4, 2014, at 00:44, Peter Paul Arlinghaus wrote:
>
>> I have to analyse big Video files. About 1-3GB. This is
>>to big for ImageJ.
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> If you open an (uncompressed) AVI as virtual stack, the
>file size does not matter, it only keeps the frame
>currently visible in memory. You can then view the video
>and perform read-only operations, such as "Analyze
>Particles"
> An alternative: Read only part of the video (the AVI
>import dialog has an option to select which frames), and
>process it in parts.
>
>> I'm using Ubuntu. I already tried winff and avidemux.
>>And ist was possible to get the videos small enough, and
>>still to have good quality.
>
> If you want to process the whole video in ImageJ: As
>soon as any operations modify the frames, ImageJ must
>load everything into memory. In that case it won't help
>to compress the video on disk, because it must be
>uncompressed as soon as it is in ImageJ.
>
>> But ImageJ always say that this compression can't be
>>read. And I have tried several. How can I fix this ?
>>which compression does ImageJ accept ?
>
> Plain ImageJ only accepts very few compression
>techniques, to keep the code simple and partly related to
>licensing/copyright issues, but also because compression
>causes artifacts that should be avoided in scientific
>image processing.
>
> Plain ImageJ supports the following types:
> - Raw video with 8-bit or 16-bit grayscale and RGB (3 *
>8 = 24 bits/pxl)
> - Various color ('chroma') subsampling types, because
>frame grabbers or cameras often deliver these as raw
>format (Y422, YUYV, I420, NV12, and the like)
> - PNG or JPEG compression of individual frames (the
>latter is also known as MJPG).
>
> Michael
>
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> ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html

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[cherishowned]

I use iDealshare VideoGo to compress AVI to smaller file size.

Here is the easy guide https://www.idealshare.net/video-converter/how-to-compress-avi-files.html

It also helps to compress other video or audio files.