How can I convert to indeo 4 / or which fileformats supports mm director 6

[alex4vh]

hey, I need to convert video files to avi files with indeo 4 codec. I am working with macromedia director 6. I only know it definetly supports AVI Indeo 4 file format. I have to resize 640x480 videos into 1280*960. I am using AE to resize it but I dont know in which format I can export it again. Any formats I tried, like wmv, mpeg2, ect are not working in that program. It is a very old program... Any help is much appreciated!

[Cornucopia]

Why are you trying to use Director6? We live in 2016 - you could/should be using Adobe Flash Builder CC 2015+ or similar.

Scott

[alex4vh]

Its a 4 GB big project that just needs to be adjusted. its about 120 dir files. If I would rebuild it I would do it in unity, cos its like a 2D game. But it would take a lot more time and I dont make the decisions anyway! They want it like that...

[Cornucopia]

Sheesh!

Well, prep your clips as uncompressed AVIs of the intended rez & framerate, save them to a storage drive.
Then fire up a virtual PC of XP-era, which includes Indeo codecs out of the box.
Recompress to Indeo-based clips, stored to that same external drive.
Then bring back up your regular OS setup.

Author. Done.

Scott

[alex4vh]

Its even worse than XP... I had to virtualize win98! That means no guest additions, that means no ext hard drive! But I managed to use a NAS with FTP and FZ on win98. So Ive come so far arldy... I just would like to compress the files into indeo on my main computer cos it runs much faster and it has the storage to hold x videos in an uncompressed file format! Which program would you recommend to use on win98 to compress those files to Indeo?

[jagabo]

I just fired up an XP VM and it shows Intel Indeo 3.2 and 4.5 as available VFW encoders. Both are contained in c:\windows\system32\qcap.dll. I don't know if you can copy that to a newer version of windows and register it.

But surely there must be some better codec that will work with your software. MJPEG? DV?

[raffriff42]

I'm not gonna test this, but you can probably get Indeo working on your system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeo
Although Indeo video is not officially supported by Windows Vista and Windows 7, simply entering the following into the command prompt might enable the playback of Indeo encoded video: regsvr32 ir50_32.dll

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/266794-Indeo-5-x-problem-with-Vista?p=1660521&viewf...=1#post1660521
http://www.ligos.com/index.php/home/products/indeo/
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/indeo_codec.htm
https://intel-indeo.en.softonic.com/

EDIT

I just fired up an XP VM and it shows Intel Indeo... as available VFW encoders.

Me too, except it's Version 5, ir50_32.dll and ir50_qcx.dll. Don't know where they came from (K-Lite maybe)

[jagabo]

I just checked and ir50_32.dll is in c:\windows\syswow64\ on this Win7 system. I also see it on a Win10 system. So registering it should work.

I just enabled on the win7 (64 bit system) with "regsvr32 c:\windows\syswow64\ir50_32.dll" and it now shows up as Indeo video 5.10 in VirtualDub (32 bit version). If you're running 32 bit Win7 it should be in system32 instead of syswow64.

I just noticed that qcap.dll is in that folder too.

[Cornucopia]

Ok, but didn't the OP wan't INDEO V4? NOT 5?

RE:VMs
Don't know what you are doing wrong but it isn't hard to set up a Win98SE vm (I've got a couple archived) - one that allows you to use any drive already mounted on the host as an additional drive in the client. Virtual PC & vmware have been able to do this for years (may need to install those integration drivers first).

Scott

[jagabo]

Ok, but didn't the OP wan't INDEO V4? NOT 5?

Yes, but if he enables the Indeo 5 VFW codec on the newer computer his software will probably be able to use it.

And looking in the SYSWOW64 folder I see ir32_32.dll, ir32.41.dll, and ir50_32.dll. So it looks like all of them are available, just not registered.

[alex4vh]

First of all Id like to thank you for your input and help! I appreciat it! Indeo 5 works, too! But the way is very inconvinient... I tried to register ir50_32.dll but my win10 64bit system throws an errorcode 0x8000ffff "DLLRegisterServer".

So I resize the video in AE and export it as AVI uncompressed. I copy it into a XP Machine (virtualized) and compress it into Indeo 5 via virtualdub. Than I copy it into the win98 machine and put it into director 6. I can import it and I can play it once and for some unknown reason the program crashes after (guessing memory overflow or whatever, win98 in virtualbox runs pretty bad). According to a german webseite director 6 supports quicktime and AVI. They dont say which codecs though...

Maybe there is a way to take the entire project into Adobe Director without any big losses?! I dont know. I also tried to copy director 6 into the XP machine, but I am getting an error it needs 10mb virtual memory. I rather think its due to the fact thats not registred properly in the windoof registry!

Vm: I am using virtualbox and according to their site u need the guest addition installed to use USB. But those work from xp on and not with w98. And even with xp i am having a hard time to mount that WD drive...

Edit: Got it running on XP, which is much better to work with. It was a problem with the virtual memory...

[jagabo]

Vm: I am using virtualbox and according to their site u need the guest addition installed to use USB. But those work from xp on and not with w98. And even with xp i am having a hard time to mount that WD drive...

Why don't you just use a network share? Share (read/write) a folder on the new computer, map it as a drive on the VM client. Both computers will be able to read/write the shared folder. You can even share the root of the USB drive.

[andkar]

You need to run regsvr32.exe from an elevated command prompt, and you need to run the one from syswow64.

Simplest way to do it correctly: browse to c:\windows\syswow64. Right click on cmd.exe and run as administrator. Now register the dll.

[alex4vh]

You need to run regsvr32.exe from an elevated command prompt, and you need to run the one from syswow64.

Simplest way to do it correctly: browse to c:\windows\syswow64. Right click on cmd.exe and run as administrator. Now register the dll.

Ups, yes you are correct... That works! thanks mate!


I am using a network folder now as well. I finally can start with actually working!

Thanks a lot...