[Sebastian]

My wife is taking an online course in which she's required to watch an IDEO video in .avi format (http://drexel.blackboard.com/@@8e179...on_Special.avi)

quicktime plays the audio, but there's no video. what does she need to use to watch this format?

thx

[coolmacdude]

Indeo, not ideo, and there is no way in OS X.

You have to use classic (with the intel indeo decoders).

[gorickey]

You can't download the .avi and use VLC?

[Sebastian]

actually, it is IDEO, which is a design company. I know Indeo is an intel codec. I need to know what player will play the avi on X (or classic), given that the codec is araw. VLC plays a demuxed audio stream, but no video..

any insight is appreciated

thx

[gorickey]

I still think VLC will play the video once it's downloaded (actually download the physical file, don't play the streaming file)...

[G-mac]

Have you tried DivX Doctor II or DivX 5.0.7?

[Uncle Skeleton]

well that is one odd file you've got there. QuickTime and ffmpeg both agree its video is IV50 (which is the code for Indeo 5 but that doesn't mean another company might not hijack that code for their own use). As you say, playing it in QT or VLC gives audio but no video. The thing is, you open it in a hex editor and it doesn't look anything like an avi. In fact I think it's a mov that was saved unflattened, so the header is at the end.

Anyway, I ran it through ffmpeg, copying both streams, and I got an avi that was still IV50, and now it plays the video in QT in Classic (Indeo installed of course), but now the audio won't play. Then after writing the first part of this post I changed the original file to end in .mov and now it plays fine straight away in Classic (with Indeo). So there you go. Not IDEO, not AVI. Indeo, and mov. You might want to contact the hosting party and suggest they change the name of the file on the server to mov, and if you're feeling sporty suggest they open it in QT and "Save As..." and click "Self Contained" and then the file will work with the QT plugin's progressive download feature (but still not in OS X).

[Musti]

There has been only a handful of movies that MPlayer OS X 2 didn't open up for me. You might want to check it out by following this link MPlayer OS X 2

[coolmacdude]

Originally posted by Musti:
There has been only a handful of movies that MPlayer OS X 2 didn't open up for me. You might want to check it out by following this link MPlayer OS X 2

IV50 and all the indeo codecs are an exception. Nothing will play them on OS X.

[the_glassman]

Is there anything that will play IV50 yet? What's the best way to transfer to a codec that we can use?

[ReggieX]

The only way to play Indeo movies is in Classic as long as you have the codec installed in the OS 9 System Folder. They were never ported to OSX, and worse yet have not been made Power Mac native, they're all 680x0 code.

Grab them here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article2.html?artnum=60366

[Uncle Skeleton]

Originally posted by the_glassman:
What's the best way to transfer to a codec that we can use?

Open them in QT Pro in Classic and Export to another codec, like 3ivx, DivX, Sorenson, MJPEG or whatever you feel like.