ImageJ won't import QuickTime movies

[Charles Henry]

Hi everyone,

I use ImageJ to import short, high-speed QuickTime movies as a stack for
analyzing motion in a singing insect.  I use a PC, either under Windows
7 or Vista.  Everything worked fine up until a week or two ago when I
upgraded QuickTime -- or at least I think that's when the trouble began.
  I'm running QT v.7.7.5 (1680.95.13), Java 1.6.0_20 32-bit, and ImageJ
v.1.46r.  Now, instead of getting a stack of frames converted to
greyscale images that I can page through, I get the message:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: quicktime.QTSession.InitializeQTML(I)S
     at quicktime.QTSession.InitializeQTML(Native Method)
     at quicktime.QTSession.initialize(QTSession.java:413)
     at quicktime.QTSession.initialize(QTSession.java:385)
     at quicktime.QTSession.open(QTSession.java:638)
     at quicktime.QTSession.open(QTSession.java:606)
     at QT_Movie_Opener.run(QT_Movie_Opener.java:80)
     at ij.IJ.runUserPlugIn(IJ.java:185)
     at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:152)
     at ij.Executer.runCommand(Executer.java:127)
     at ij.Executer.run(Executer.java:64)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

Plugins, jars, and Java are all configured correctly; as I said, I've
analyzed plenty of movies over the past 4 months using this setup.

Can anyone help?  This is a research-stopper.

Thanks,
Charlie


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[ctrueden]

Hi Charles,

> I use ImageJ to import short, high-speed QuickTime movies

Have you tried importing your movies using Bio-Formats (File > Import >
Bio-Formats), which comes bundled with the Fiji distribution of ImageJ? (
http://fiji.sc/)

Depending on the codec you use [1], it might get you going again. And it
would allow you to use the 64-bit version of ImageJ, too.

Regards,
Curtis

[1]
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5/formats/quicktime-movie.html


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Charles Henry <[hidden email]>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I use ImageJ to import short, high-speed QuickTime movies as a stack for
> analyzing motion in a singing insect.  I use a PC, either under Windows 7
> or Vista.  Everything worked fine up until a week or two ago when I
> upgraded QuickTime -- or at least I think that's when the trouble began.
>  I'm running QT v.7.7.5 (1680.95.13), Java 1.6.0_20 32-bit, and ImageJ
> v.1.46r.  Now, instead of getting a stack of frames converted to greyscale
> images that I can page through, I get the message:
>
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: quicktime.QTSession.InitializeQTML(I)S
>     at quicktime.QTSession.InitializeQTML(Native Method)
>     at quicktime.QTSession.initialize(QTSession.java:413)
>     at quicktime.QTSession.initialize(QTSession.java:385)
>     at quicktime.QTSession.open(QTSession.java:638)
>     at quicktime.QTSession.open(QTSession.java:606)
>     at QT_Movie_Opener.run(QT_Movie_Opener.java:80)
>     at ij.IJ.runUserPlugIn(IJ.java:185)
>     at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:152)
>     at ij.Executer.runCommand(Executer.java:127)
>     at ij.Executer.run(Executer.java:64)
>     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
>
> Plugins, jars, and Java are all configured correctly; as I said, I've
> analyzed plenty of movies over the past 4 months using this setup.
>
> Can anyone help?  This is a research-stopper.
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
>
>
> --
> Charles S. Henry
> Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (http://www.eeb.uconn.edu)
> University of Connecticut
> Unit 3043, 75 North Eagleville Road
> Storrs, CT, USA 06269-3043
>
> Office: 479/481 Torrey Life Sciences
> Phone: [phone]
> FAX: [phone] (departmental)
> e-mail: [hidden email]
>
> Home page: http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/people/chenry/
> Songs of lacewings: http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/people/chenry/Cryptic_songs.
> html
> Google Scholar Site: http://scholar.google.com/
> citations?user=2orgOvQAAAAJ&hl=en
>
> --
> ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html
>

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[Charles Henry]

Hi Curtis,
I had considered this option, but didn't know how to acquire
Bio-Formats, nor set it up.  I will look into it; thanks for the
suggestion, and the links.  I just don't know why the system broke in
the first place -- it was perfect for me.
Charlie

On 3/24/2014 5:25 PM, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
>> I use ImageJ to import short, high-speed QuickTime movies
> Have you tried importing your movies using Bio-Formats (File > Import >
> Bio-Formats), which comes bundled with the Fiji distribution of ImageJ? (
> http://fiji.sc/)
>
> Depending on the codec you use [1], it might get you going again. And it
> would allow you to use the 64-bit version of ImageJ, too.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
> [1]
> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5/formats/quicktime-movie.html

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