SOLVED : how to encode an.avi readable by ImageJ

Posted by Yann BOURSIAC on Feb 18, 2010; 7:43am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/how-to-encode-an-avi-readable-by-ImageJ-tp3689341p3689343.html

Hi all,
I finally got my problem solved, but not exactly what I wanted.

The procedure that works for me is to encode the video files into a .mov
file and using the quicktime plugin. The  file can then be open with
ImageJ, although it's taking quite a while for big files on my computer.

Yann

Michael Schmid a écrit :

> Hi Everyone,
>
> is the problem of "missing Huffman tables" a frequent one?
>
> If there are many reports about such problems it might be worthwhile
> to add code to fix this problem, but I don't know common JPEG-encoded
> .AVI files (aka M-JPEG encoded) without Huffman tables are. In
> principle, such a fix would be possible (it would not help to read
> MPEG-encoded files, however; MPEG is a rather complex encoding).
>
> For those interested in details: (M-)JPEG encoded video files do not
> need to supply Huffman tables in the individual frames, but many
> (M-)JPEG-encoded video files include them nonetheless. Currently
> ImageJ can only decode those (M-)JPEG-encoded video files that include
> Huffman tables.
>
>
> Michael
> ________________________________________________________________
>
> On 5 Feb 2010, at 17:23, Yann BOURSIAC wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> ImageJ has the possibility to open .avi files. However, when I try, I
>> get the error message "cannot open video files missing Huffman tables".
>> So my question is: how can I encode my files (coming from a DVD
>> recorder) into an avi that will be readable by ImageJ?
>> I tried some codecs from VLC or virtualdub but never succeeded.
>>
>> Alternatively, the final aim is to measure the diameter of a round
>> cell along time. Our setup include a microscope camera linked to a
>> DVD recorder. I would like to use an equivalent of the ruler tool
>> from ImageJ. Do you know any possibility or any other alternative?
>>
>> Thank You
>>
>> Yann
>