At 11:11 AM 5/16/96 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 15 May 1996, Fred Michael Sloniker wrote:
>
>> ...my AVI player won't play it. "Cannot find vids:IV41 decompressor" it
>> says. Anybody know where I can find this? (I'm using Windows 3.1's media
>> player.)
>
>It was compressed with "Intel Indeo". It's built right into Win95.
>Try http://www.intel.com/pc-supp/multimed/indeo/
>and try downloading the codec. It might seem like a lot of hassle to just
>play one movie, but this probably won't be the last one you see like this.
>
>Now, you say you used Media Player.. In order to get that to play movies, you
>would have had to install Video for Windows. Now I thought indeo came with
>VFW. Maybe you have an old version? Or i'm mistaken in thinking it came with
>it. :)
>
>I was about to recompress it with Radius Cinepak, which is much more
>compatible (especially since Quicktime also uses it), but it ended up being
>over a meg bigger!
>
>I'm posting this to the list to say this:
>If you're using Win95, you can play funykis2.avi, you can only play it if
>you have the Intel Indeo codec.
>
>Wow, talk about yer technobable. :-)
>
I have Win95, and I don't. I just go into documents and unzip it, using
WinZip. Then, It downloads it in a few secs. ;)
-CF
dflinn_at_bcoe.butte.k12.ca.us
Received on Sat May 18 1996 - 03:34:31 PDT