What codec was the video created with? My first guess would be that the
codex used to create the clip is not on the playback machine
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Simpson, Colin" <email@hidden>
To: "'Ken Hornak'" <email@hidden>;
<email@hidden>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 17:09
Subject: AVI playback problem in Windows 2000
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem with getting the video from an AVI to playback in
Quicktime
> Pro 6 that has been driving me spare for nearly a week.
>
> I've been through all the help sites, downloaded the indeo and Windows
media
> codecs, updated DirectX, uninstalled and reinstalled Quicktime 6 and 5 and
> still nothing.
>
> The sound works fine but I'm always left with a big blank white screen and
a
> message saying that I don't have the right compressor.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Hornak [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 June 2003 4:24 AM
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Creating raw AVI files with QuickTime
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use the Apple sample code at
> http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1147.html.
>
> I want to create a raw, uncompressed, AVI file using QuickTime from within
> my app.
>
> If I pass in kWindowsRawCodecType I get error -8961 (noCodecErr) back from
> ConvertMovieToFile.
>
> I did some experimentation and if I pass in kIndeo4CodecType (just like in
> the sample code) I get the same error.
>
> If, however, I pass in kCinepakCodecType, kJPEGCodecType or kBMPCodecType,
> I'll get an AVI file (though the last two formats won't play in Windows
> Media Player or Real Player on Windows--only with QuickTime Player).
>
> I also went so far as to put together some code that calls
> ConvertMovieToFile and brings up the export dialog so that I could
manually
> select AVI, None and Millions of colors and after the dialog is dismissed
I
> used QTGetAtomDataPtr to get the spatialSettings out of the codec in use
and
> confirmed that all of its fields are set to the same settings I am trying
to
> use.
>
> I'd think that there is a bug in QT but QTPlayerPro can export an AVI just
> like the one I'm trying to create programmatically. So the only thing I
can
> think of it there must be something else I need to do in the code to get
> this to work.
>
> In searching the QTTalk archives I see this issue came up a couple of
years
> ago but no one ever really posted a definitive answer (at least that I can
> see).
>
> Has anyone else been able to get this code to work or been able to create
a
> raw AVI file?
>
> Thanks,
> --ken
>
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