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Dear Listserv,
I've been burned enough with compressed videos on different PC's that I
now routinely use uncompressed AVI, made with MetaMorph or ImageJ. Big
but safe.
Web sites where I've found video codec's are listed below. I am a fan of
the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. At bottom is a comparison table I made using
MetaMorph to generate the movies (except for Quicktime, which Meta 6.x
always crashed trying to make).
Download, install, use at your own risk!
Video Codec downloads
Siggraph Codec Central
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/video/codecs/Default.htm
FourCC codecs list (Four-Character Codes to identify video
streams)
http://www.fourcc.org/codecs.php
Microsoft's FourCC for video compression
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/fourcc.mspx
Microsoft DirectX 9.0c end-user runtime
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a9b6820-bfbb-4799-9908-d418cdeac197&displaylang=en
Microsoft Codec installation
packages
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx
DivX
codec
http://www.divx.com/divx/
Codec-Download
(archive)
http://www.codec-download.com/
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
http://www.codecguide.com/download_mega.htm
Ligos Indeo codec
family
http://www.ligos.com/indeo.htm
3ivx D4
4.5
http://www.3ivx.com/
XviD
codec
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
HuffYUV
http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html
Apple
Quicktime
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
filename
filesize
Score (sum)
VP61 Advanced
Profile
1,582,592 1
VP62 Heightened
Sharpness
1,584,640 1
VP60 Simple
Profile
1,612,288 1
DivX MPEG-4
Fast-Motion
2,459,648 5
DivX MPEG-4
Low-Motion
4,312,064 4
Microsoft MPEG-4
V2
6,698,496 2
Intel Indeo video
R3.2
20,154,880 6
Microsoft Windows Media Video 9
28,512,768 2
Cinepak
35,144,192 2
Intel Indeo Video
4.5
38,092,800 2
Microsoft Video
1
65,801,728 3
QuickTime
225,830,571 4
uncompressed
363,842,048 2
average score (of 24
codecs)
50,512,800 3.16
standard
deviation
88,101,414 2.13
median
13,934,080 2
maximum possible score (high is bad)
12
Videos made with MetaMorph 6.3.2.
Videos examined in Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.00.00.3250, zoom
200%, except for Quicktime movie viewed with Apple Quicktime Player
6.5.2.
At 03:54 PM 1/22/2008, you wrote:
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
with a repaired codec. Does
anyone know how to raise such issues with
Apple?
I have not found Apple to be very responsive.
However, there is one last thing you can try. I'm more of a Linux
guy than a Mac or Windoze person, and there is a player originally
written for Linux but ported to the Mac called
"mplayer." It's primarily a command-line player
(though it has a gui if you want to use it). The nice thing about
it is that it comes with a zillion codecs (that you have to download
separately), and I have yet to find an unenrypted movie that it can't
handle. It comes with a function for translating between formats
and codecs, and is generally the workhorse for this kind of in the Linux
world.
Take a look at:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
billo
George McNamara, Ph.D.
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Image Core
Miami, FL 33010
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