Re: quicktime write problem

Posted by Bill Mohler on May 06, 2009; 6:16pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/quicktime-write-problem-tp3692609p3692611.html

Wayne-

Is it possible for the QuickTime writer plugin to catch that
exception and throw up a message to the user suggesting that name
length of a directory might be a problem?  Or are there just to many
ways for that exception to arise to focus the user on that likely
possibility.

Thanks,
Bill

>On May 6, 2009, at 12:34 PM, David Knecht wrote:
>
>>Several computers in my teaching lab have stopped exporting
>>quicktime movies from stacks.  It worked all semester and also
>>worked today with some stacks but not others.  The error message is:
>>
>>quicktime.std.StdQTException[QTJava:7.6.0g],-47=fBsyErr,QT.vers:7608000
>> at quicktime.std.StdQTException.checkError(StdQTException.java:38)
>> at quicktime.std.movies.Movie.createMovieFile(Movie.java:115)
>> at QuickTime_Writer.writeMovie(QuickTime_Writer.java:109)
>> at QuickTime_Writer.run(QuickTime_Writer.java:86)
>> at ij.IJ.runUserPlugIn(IJ.java:173)
>> at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:139)
>> at ij.Executer.runCommand(Executer.java:104)
>> at ij.Executer.run(Executer.java:58)
>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
>>
>>Can someone interpert this for me?  Thanks- Dave
>
>You can get this error when you attempt to export a QuickTime move
>to a folder that has a name longer than 31 characters.
>
>-wayne