Hi Christophe,
Bio-Formats can read AVI compressed with the Microsoft Run-Length
Encoding (MSRLE) and Microsoft Video (MSV1) codecs. The JMF Movie
Reader plugin (
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/jmf.html) can handle
Cinepak and JPEG codecs. Otherwise, if your movie uses something else,
it will likely be easiest to use some kind of transcoding software to
uncompress the video first.
On Windows, you can find out a lot of details about your file,
including which codec it uses, with the GSpot Codec Information
Appliance (
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/).
As for a transcoding application, there are a large number of them.
You could try VirtualDub (
http://www.virtualdub.org/) or transcode
(
http://www.transcoding.org), or just Google around.
-Curtis
On Jan 19, 2008 3:31 AM, Christophe Leterrier
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> Dear listers,
>
> I just got a bunch of .avi files that are an output from a Matlab routine
> that I didn't right, and that I don't even have access to. I would like to
> further process the images (i.e., stitch several movies in parallel), but
> when I'm trying to do an Import/.AVI I get an error about ImageJ not being
> able to open compressed avi. Is there a more versatile plugin that would be
> able to open such images ? Or alternatively, is there a good free software
> to know exactly what kind of file is this .avi and convert it to an ImageJ
> readable format ?
>
> Thank you for your advices,
>
> Christophe Leterrier
>
> Postdoc
> INSERM UMR641 Neurobiology of ionic channels
> IFR Jean Roche - Mediterranee University
> Marseille, France
>
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