Reading 24bit AVI files

Posted by simon andrews (BI) on Apr 17, 2008; 1:50pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Reading-24bit-AVI-files-tp3696450.html

I'm trying to read AVI files using ImageJ and the BioFormats  
AVIReader.  I'm basically doing exactly what's shown at:

https://skyking.microscopy.wisc.edu/trac/java/browser/trunk/utils/ 
Read_Image.java

To try to turn an AVI into an ImagePlus object.

This works fine with 8bit AVI files, but 24bit AVIs are getting  
messed up.  When I read them with AVIReader then getImageCount  
returns only 1/3 of the expected number of images (180 instead of  
540), and although I can transform the 180 images into an ImageStack,  
it looks corrupted (maybe because it has 3 images overlaid in each  
slice?).

ImageJ itself can open these files and displays the right number of  
slices (although it incorrectly reports them as 8bit), but I don't  
know what it's doing which isn't in the plugin example code.

Does anyone here know how to do this successfully.

Thanks

Simon.