Re: importing wmv files

Posted by Corentin Cras-Méneur-3 on May 29, 2007; 3:40pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/importing-wmv-files-tp3699291p3699292.html

        Hi Jared,

On May 28, 2007, at 16:01 , Jared Fletcher wrote:

> I'll apologize in advance if there is an incredibly obvious answer to
> this question, but I'm fairly new to ImageJ...
>
> I am attempting to import a .wmv file in ImageJ using the "file-import
> using quicktime" command and I get an error message:
> "open movie failed: -2048"
>

What platform are you on?? On MacOS X, you can get WMV support in  
QuickTIme if you install the (free) FLip4Mac WMV codecs for QuickTime.

> Is there a plug-in I need to download in order to view this video  
> and/or
> to convert this wmv file to avi format (of which I have no problems
> opening)?

AVI is tricky too actually. It's a container format. You can use many  
many different codcs inside the avi container (including WMV  
acutally) and I doubt that you'll be able to natively play all of them.

Corentin