Re: Importing .avi

Posted by dscho on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Importing-avi-tp5000582p5000595.html

Hi Alexander,

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Alexander Haverkamp wrote:

> Since days I am busy with a rather stupid problem: I recorded several
> .avi films via a web cam.  However when I try to open these in ImageJ I
> get the error message
>
> /An error occured reading the AVI file. Unsupported compresion: 34504d46
> 'FMP4'
>
> /I have tried to convert the files already several times, but unfortunately
> the problem remains.
> Does anyone have a suggestion on how I could solve it?

As AVI is only a container format and the real power comes from the
compression schemes, the AVI support in ImageJ 1.x is focusing on basic
support rather than full support.

If you use Fiji, you might want to try the update site I set up for my
FFMPEG plugins. They are still in a rudimentary state, and they require an
update site because of the native and non-native dependencies.

In other words, it would be a real big hassle to download the appropriate
files, put them into the correct place, start the JVM with the required
parameters, and of course keep up-to-date manually.

To add the update site to your Fiji installation, please follow the
instructions at http://fiji.sc/Update_Sites and add the URL:

        http://fiji.sc/~schindelin/ffmpeg-plugins/

Ciao,
Johannes

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