[Paraview] Can't run VTKAVIWRITER - Unable to compress avi file error

[David Partyka]

Also, out of curiosity, does your Windows folder contain iccvid.dll at all?
(My machine has several of them).

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:38 PM, David Partyka <david.partyka at kitware.com>wrote:

> Do you have windows media player installed? I have a feeling the old codec
> (CVID) that we use isn't carried around anymore in Windows 7.
>
> If you're building from source you could try putting vtkAVIWRiter.cxx, line
> 59 and change CVID to MSVC like so. That will use an even older codec if it
> is available.
>
> this->SetCompressorFourCC("MSVC");
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ricardo Canelas <marandus at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So, no one has the same problem?
>>
>> Magic fixes?
>>
>> Anything?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Ricardo Canelas <marandus at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2011/3/31
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Can't run VTKAVIWRITER
>> To: David Partyka <david.partyka at kitware.com>
>>
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> win 7, 64bits.
>>
>> I really don't know what to do, and i'm not feeling like saving to jpgs of
>> tiffs and then stitching it all together...
>>
>> Any one else?
>>
>>
>> 2011/3/31 David Partyka <david.partyka at kitware.com>
>>
>>> Hi  Ricardo, what version of Windows are you running? I have seen this on
>>> a Windows server 2008 machine.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Ricardo Canelas <marandus at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> When trying to save an animation in avi from a loaded vtk legacy file
>>>> series, i get
>>>>
>>>> ERROR: In ..\..\..\..\source\VTK\IO\vtkAVIWriter.cxx, line 172
>>>> vtkAVIWriter (000000001758AD80): Unable to compress...
>>>>
>>>> All i find online is that it shouldn't work in a non-windows platform.
>>>>
>>>> I'm running paraview 3.10 64bit (awesome, thanks guys!) on a windows
>>>> platform.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ricardo Canelas
>>>>
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