by Rick Towler <rick.towler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 25, 2008 at 12:00 PM
What codec are you using when generating the AVI created in PowerDirector?
-r
Peter Clinch wrote:
> Following my dumb Q about MPEGs a couple of days ago it was suggested
> I'd be better off with AVIs, so I've moved on to AVIs and picked up Ronn
> Kling's AVI code from
http://www.kilvarock.com./freesoftware/dlms/dlms.htm
>
> It seems to do the generate test okay, and subsequently read back the
> avi it generated, but everything goes pear-shaped and IDL crashes
> horribly if I try to import a short AVI I've just saved from a movie
> capture program called PowerDirector, using the maximum quality option.
> That movie plays okay in VLC and Windows Media Player.
>
> It falls over reproducibly on different machines, and as well as 7.0 I
> loaded up a copy of 6.3 just to make sure nothing had changed in IDL to
> break it.
>
> Anyone have any ideas what might be going wrong?
>
> Ta, pete.
