matrox rainbow.-runner mjpeg

[freelander]

i got old video saved on cd-rom.

they were captured with first model of matrox rainbow runner x millennium II : they are avi mjpeg

i don't have this machine working anymore and i cannot open these file with nothing i tryed.

does anyone know how to open/convert these files in a standard avi/mpg ?

[bprothero]

You can try using a software M-JPEG codec to read the video. Here is a link for the Morgan M-JPEG codec.

http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/morgan_mjpeg.html

I have a Matrox Mystique 220 PCI card + Rainbow Runner Studio daughter board that I would be willing to sell for cheap now that I have upgraded to a Matrox Marvel G400-TV. It is essentially the same card you use to own (Mystique 220 and Millennium II used the same RR card). The latest drivers support Windows 98.

Hope this helps.

Brian

[freelander]

BRIAN :

YOU'VE SAVE ME SOME UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS !

THANKS A LOT !

[bprothero]

I'm glad I was able to help.

[Psychopomp]

I was just wondering, since Matrox dropped their MJPEG support in Windows 2000, will this software MJPEG codec allow me to capture in MJPEG with a Rainbow Runner G series or only view previously captured MJPEG files on hardware that is incapable of playing it back?

[bprothero]

I haven't tried it myself, since I am still using Win98se, but I would think that you should be able to capture to any codec. It is more a limitation of the software you use to capture than the hardware. You might be able to use the Matrox PC-VCR application if you set it to RGB capture but if not you should be able to use VirtualDub or another video capture application.