Re: Corrupt Canon S2IS movie clips and WinXP crashes
- From: "Glen" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:53:05 GMT
"John H" <iamnot@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:lasfq1pam50ut85m8ejtn4bkb57r0o18n5@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:30:35 GMT, "Glen" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >"per" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43a731a8$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Some of my video clips do crash WinXP SP2, seemingly as soon as Windows
> >> Explorer reads in the file info, when opening the folder where it is placed.
> >> (I have Windows Media Player 10 for playing the movie clips.)
> >> When using the Canon Utilities Camera Window file transfering software, the
> >> movie file can be looked at without crashing, but trying to play it will
> >> start Media Player, with a resulting crash.
> >> The movie can be played within the camera, however, and viewed on the camera
> >> LCD screen.
> >> Two different computers I have share this problems, both WinXP and AMD64.
> >> An old computer with Win Me have no problems showing these bad movies
> >> though.
> >> Canon support in Sweden has not been able to track the issue down.
> >> Do you have any ideas what is going on?
> >> /per
> >
> >It's almost certainly a codec issue. Canon uses a funky MJPEG
> >codec for its movie files, written before the MJPEG standard
> >was even finalized. If WMP 10 (or whatever) is using a
> >different MJPEG codec, it's probably causing your problem.
> >
> >One trick is to import the Canon AVI files into VirtualDub (a
> >freeware utility), then save them using a different AVI format.
> >The files do not need to be demuxed/recompressed, so there
> >will be no quality loss.
> >
>
> Video Inspector http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?download
> (donate ware) shows the codec as IBM Motion JPEG. Although it tells
> me it isn't installed the video plays fine in WMP10, BSPlayer and Nero
> Showtime. NeroMediaPlayer shows the mjpeg codec as missing though.
> Video Inspector provides links for missing video and audio codecs.
>
> One would think that since the OP installed the Canon software
> that it would have installed the needed codec at the same time.
Yes, but another player (or third-party codec pack) might have
been installed that changed the preferred MJPEG codec on his
system.
.
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