Hello,
Am about to give up on this problem: cannot get some older AVI movie clips
to play with IrfanView 32-Bit for Windows 9x... or with ZweiStein200... or
with Windows Media Player (with newest CODEC's installed)... or with
several other shareware and freeware viewers.
The problem?: The RT21 decompressor is missing. (Apparently, these older
AVI's were compressed with this CODEC: Real Time Video 2.1, and now
backwards compatibility doesn't quite reach that far.)
I've spent days scouring the 'net and have found numerous references, but
never a "direct hit" on solving the problem. The closest I think I've
gotten to solving the problem was finding a page that has the "IR21.dll"
for download... still didn't work! (Though, it is possible that I may not
have installed the dll properly... I'm using Windows 98 on a Pentium-3)
See: http://members.tripod.com/~grok/video.htm
(Closest I've been able to come to a solution to this problem.)
(FYI, from my research on the web, regarding RT-21,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says: "What Indeo was called before the marketing
guys got their hands on it. RTV or Real Time Video was the format produced
by Intel's ActionMedia II adapter back in the late 80s. When the 80486 came
along, this migrated to the software-decodable Indeo formats used today." )
So... thinking about a solution here... am looking for: 1) shareware
viewer that has and can handle the *old* CODEC's (TUCOWS turned out to be
a dead end) (W98 preferred, but DOS okay); or 2) a good reference source
on the Internet for solving this problem: www pages or discussion
groups; or 3) guidance from someone who has wrestled with this same
problem before. (Somebody here??); or, last resort: 4) guidance on
translating older AVI files to a different format. (Might be the easiest
solution, actually)
Thanking you in advance!
Garrett Wilner
Austin, Texas
