They are many codecs of video compression. You can try with transcode (for resampling the video), or with the codecs that comes with mplayer, such as w32codecs. Frank Schulz wrote:

Hello!

I have rescued a couple of *.avi files from a friend's win-xp system crash ;-|.

Most files are the original downstream files from his camera. These files (up to 4GB, but also smaller ones) can not be read by mainactor 3.5 or mainactor 5.0-demo from the suse distributions. Kaffeine shows a black screen but plays the sound - it may be a tribute to my weak system (PII/350).

Avi files which were allready treated by Pinacle can be handled by mainactor.

My question: Are there different types of avi and/or i need extra libs/ plugins/workarounds ?

thx frank

The 4GB ones are uncompressed... most likely you can only view them in the software tha captured them in the first place. Beyond that (the smaller ones) depend on the codec used. If they were captured with Premiere, you'd change (find out) the codec in the project settings (video). I always use DIVX as most machines these days can handle it. Paul

Hello!

I have rescued a couple of *.avi files from a friend's win-xp system crash ;-|.

Most files are the original downstream files from his camera. These files (up to 4GB, but also smaller ones) can not be read by mainactor 3.5 or mainactor 5.0-demo from the suse distributions. Kaffeine shows a black screen but plays the sound - it may be a tribute to my weak system (PII/350).

Avi files which were allready treated by Pinacle can be handled by mainactor.

My question: Are there different types of avi and/or i need extra libs/ plugins/workarounds ?

thx frank