Re: AVI files

Posted by Michael Schmid on May 28, 2010; 8:27am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Analyze-particles-Help-and-bug-tp3688137p3688145.html

On 28 May 2010, at 10:04, Seitz Arne wrote:

>  Dear List,
>
> currently I'm facing the problem that avi-files generated with  
> ImageJ (Version 1.44a; Java 1.6.0_10) cannot be opened with Windows  
> Media Player from Windows 7. I don't care about Windows Mediaplayer  
> but it is also not possible to use these avi files in presentations  
> which is a little bit nasty. Has maybe anyone encountered the same  
> problem and/or a solution for this issue.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Cheers Arne

Hi Arne,

which type of compression do you use? PNG has the advantage of being  
non-lossy and smaller than uncompressed, but there are many programs  
that cannot read it.
Also, some programs cannot read avi files if the image width and  
height are not multiples of 4.

Michael