AVI question

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i have some avis  downloaded  an burnt from around 1997/1998  ..my 1200
can play them quite ok  ..if i download a avi from  a later time  i get a encoding error ..sound and movie ..how can i discover what encoding the avis from 1998 are ..id like to burn  a few things on cd  from more recent times  an be able to play on my 1200..

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various  movie  adds  ..startrek  voyager  previews from 1997..get about 15 frames a sec ..some play good  some  a bit  jerky  ..on my 030/50

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Sysinfo reports 38mips for my 40mhz '040, so an '060@50mhz is clearly more than that, let alone an overclocked '060.

Also Cinepak isn't restricted to video as low quality as the sample videos on OS3.9. I converted transformers3 to avi/cinepak a while back and it looks quite decent. I tried with IV as well and Cinepak is a bit cleaner. IV does however compress better, and will give better image quality the faster the cpu (doesn't drop as many frames on slower hardware, but instead will lower image quality(why it was suitable for online video in the late 90's.)
This "improved" picture quality of course only scales as far as the source materials encoding.

what program did u use to convert ?? ..i use  freemake  video  converter ..for most things ..just works easy ..but tried avis but thats when i get get codec errors when i try to play on a1200

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I thought I'd give Virtualdub another try with CinePak and got a reasonable result, I'll have to see if I can tweak it further.   The audio is very low, not sure why.

im assuming  u got a 060  playing that avi  ..i dont get nearly as good results  
smooth enuff  but looks more like 16 colours  on my  030 machine half screen  mov files  look better using action  i use cyberavi to play avis ..mpegs dont seem to like me  so far not many play for me or are way jerky.. ..lets say  i have a mpeg  or a vcd  of a movie  an want to play it as a avi on my a1200 ..how  do i do it  ..never used virtual dub etc..

[AAACHIPSET]

Yep a good starting point.

I've noticed that those videos are very low quality, even if you watch them in a Window on Windows (confused?)

One strange thing that I noticed with video playback on Classics, if I play the same OS 3.9 video with an 030 and then an 060 the playback speed is not much better.   Considering the increase in MIPS (from 10 to 110), you'd expect a bigger improvement?

I've also played around and converted a few of my own clips to AVI but haven't got it working very well yet.

could you please do a quick how to  with virtual dub  to making avis  capable of being played on amiga  ..ive downloaded  the program  ..how do i add the codecs(cinepak)  i need  an how do i set it  up to copy an convert a movie  to a avi..had a quick look a bit lost ..i downloaded the latest version ..

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ok  following  your instrutions  ..couldnt find 8 bit  audio  ..an no sign of legacy avi ..just saved as old type avi ..see how it goes  ..i did find a 10 min  avi from my collection on a cd from 1996  ..it played ok  ..was full screen  even  ..bit jerky an colours were not quite  right ..but who knows  ..im persistant..

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thanks  i did get a full episode of startrek  converted to avi  ..an it played from my usb  on my 1200 ..a bit  slow  ..but  didnt wanna burn a cd till i thought id get a working copy ..no sound  yet ..so ill try your  suggestions on how  you did it ..c how it goes  ..only  program i used before was freemakevideo converter  ..brilliant program ..can turn a mp4  into anything  almost ..or easy vcd  ..they basically do everything for you ..

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thats outstanding  ..afraid best i could  get is 160 x 240  ..with sound  it gets a bit lost but plays ok ..afraid  the colours  get lost  ..good effect  for my 1200/030 ..i used  action player  ..cyberavi users lots  chip memory so large  avis it just wont play ..i got over 90 meg fast ram free  but stuck with 2 meg chip limits ..
how do u get it to play in ham mode ?