[MPlayer-users] Please help a newbie with AVI video only problem

[Felix Buenemann]

I found some more infom the codec is called Motion Pixels and here's an 
interesting article about it:

http://www.synthetic-ap.com/qt/motionpix.html


On Sunday 07 July 2002 02:23, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Saturday 06 July 2002 16:36, Arpi wrote:
> > > ======= STREAM Header =======
> > > Type: vids   FCC: mvi2 (3269766D)
> > > Flags: 0
> > > Priority: 0   Language: 0
> > > InitialFrames: 0
> > > Rate: 1000000/66733 = 14.985
> > > Start: 0   Len: 57452
> > > Suggested BufferSize: 56904
> > > Quality 10000
> > > Sample size: 0
> > > found 'bih', 40 bytes of 40
> > > ======= VIDEO Format ======
> > >   biSize 40
> > >   biWidth 320
> > >   biHeight 236
> > >   biPlanes 1
> > >   biBitCount 16
> > >   biCompression 845742592=''
> > >   biSizeImage 151040
> >
> > it looks like an unsupported video codec. i've never heard about mvi2.
> > read codecs.html about how to add new DLLs.
> > you need the DLL from windows and some more info, described there
>
> yes, I was wrong and you are right, I found out this, when googling:
> [drivers]
> ...
> VIDC.mvi1=mvicodec.dll
> VIDC.mvi2=mvicodec.dll
>
> so above to lines say that mvicodec.dll is the (16Bit?) VfW codec used to
> decode mvi1 and avi2.
>
> ; VfW 1.1e 16-bit AVI support [next 3 lines]:
> VIDC.YVU9=C:\WG\SYSTEM\ir21_r.dll
> VIDC.RT21=C:\WG\SYSTEM\ir21_r.dll
> VIDC.IV30=C:\WG\SYSTEM\ir32.dll
>
> Well, these files seem to be also needed for "YUV9 Decoding support", they
> seem to be from an old Win 3.1 VfW 1.1e package, that seems to basically
> contain indeo 2 & 3 codecs.
Btw. I found a 32Bit package of those codecs, too if needed...

>
> > A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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