Have you read over the "AVI Review" by John McGowan?
http://www.jmcgowan.com/avi.html
See the section on Audio and Video Codecs:
http://www.jmcgowan.com/avi.html#Codecs
See also the section on "How to play an AVI file"
http://www.jmcgowan.com/aviauthor.html#Play
Alan
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On 29 Apr 2000, 22:33, Garrett Wilner wrote:
> 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)
