Re: different avi-types?

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 ;-|.
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>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).
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>Avi files which were allready treated by Pinacle can be handled by mainactor.
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>My question: Are there different types of avi and/or i need extra libs/
>plugins/workarounds ?
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>thx frank
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