More Movie Difficulties

[Rik Panero]

>I am still having problems displaying avi movies in Rev on Windows (98,
>2000, ME) systems on a consistent basis.  My avi movies will play on a PC
>through the Windows Media Player, but once imported into Rev, will not
>display with the "play movie" command.  I can not locate any detailed
>information on movie playback in the Rev documentation.  What is the proper
>format and codec for displaying video on the Windows OS?  Where is
>documentation on this located?  ... please, No QuickTime (Not widely
>supported on Windows).

I don't think I have the answer for you, but IIRC the only video file type 
guaranteed to run on all Windows platforms is uncompressed AVIs, not very 
usable information, I know.  Another option is to use one of the (few) 
compression codecs installed with Windows, which would have a reasonable 
guarantee of being on whatever computer your app ends up on, but the only 
two I can think of are "Video 1" and "RLE" which aren't really all that 
great.  Similar to your case, I have a 3D program that renders to an MJPEG 
format that Media Player will play, but Revolution won't.  But Revolution 
*will* play files rendered with any other codec I have installed, even my 
capture card's compression codec, so I don't know what the discrepancy is.

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      Rik Panero
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