decompressor for .avi
February 12, 2005 12:00 AM
I'm trying to load a .avi video on 2003 (a supported file), and the window says it cannot find the "vids:mjpg" decompressor, so the video is unavailable. I've loaded .mov files before with success, but they are both supposed to be supported files. Any help with this? Any way to change my .avi to .mov successfully? Thanks!
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Heya:).mov's are good. But you'll need to hit Apple's site (I think) to convert the movie, it will likely not be free. And I think (depending on version of mov) your users will require a plug-in.You might want to consider converting the AVI to WMV. The compression is about the best I've seen, and if you have Windows XP, you can do this with the included moviemaker. Start > Run > Type Moviemk and hit Enter.AVI's are typically huge. DivX is nice, but it requires a download and installation. I'd stay away from the AVI extension, run away screaming:)The newer Windows Media (WMV / WMA) stuff uses a similar compression, and I have been amazed at the results in most cases.For our video, we use Flash. The version 7 player is supported on our system, and using this method gives us interactive controls that are hard or impossible to attain with traditional video formats.
THanks for all your help.I was actually able to just change the extension to .mpeg or.mpa and it was able to read the file just fine!
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