Re: quicktime write problem

Posted by Bill Mohler on May 07, 2009; 6:56pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/quicktime-write-problem-tp3692609p3692614.html

Thanks Wayne-

What exactly is the support for hyperstacks here?  Does it write out
separate movies for each channel or Z-stack?  Or does it write a
single movie from all dimensions of the hyperstack in a canonical
order (eg CZT)?

Bill

>There is a new version of the QuickTime_Writer plugin at
>
>     http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/movie-writer.html
>
>that suggests that the length of the directory name might be the
>problem when a "fBsyErr" exception occurs. This version also adds
>support for hyperstacks.
>
>-wayne
>
>On May 6, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Bill Mohler wrote:
>
>>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