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I am trying to view avi movies that I captured on the G2. They view fine in the camera but once transfered to my system, the sound only comes through. The video is static.

When using ZoomBrowser, I can view the thumbnail of the video but as soon as I double click, I get an error message.

Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes.

By the way, I update to firmware ver 1.1 but I can't exactly remember if it actually worked before the firmware upgrade.
 
Wow, I've had mine since February and have taken thousands of pictures with it but never used the movie mode?
Lee Fairbanks2 said:
I am trying to view avi movies that I captured on the G2. They view
fine in the camera but once transfered to my system, the sound only
comes through. The video is static.

When using ZoomBrowser, I can view the thumbnail of the video but
as soon as I double click, I get an error message.

Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes.

By the way, I update to firmware ver 1.1 but I can't exactly
remember if it actually worked before the firmware upgrade.
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I am not an expert on this, but I do know that not all players can play .avi files. Realone and Windows media player I believe cannot. Quicktime I believe can, but the movies are sometimes sketchy, ie start and stop. Others may be able to tell you of a player that is flawless with .avi files. I just know that the Windows Media Player gave me the same sypmtoms you are stating and Quicktime does not. And a small version of it is free if you go to their website.

KR
 
You put a "?" mark on the end of your post. I am unsure if you are serious about not using movie mode.

I have a video camera with a firewire connection, it's fast and better so I hardly ever need the movie mode on the G2. I've simply done without it. Actually, the only reason that I am looking into it is because it bothers me that it doesn't work and I also have some time here to waste.
NNS said:
Lee Fairbanks2 said:
I am trying to view avi movies that I captured on the G2. They view
fine in the camera but once transfered to my system, the sound only
comes through. The video is static.

When using ZoomBrowser, I can view the thumbnail of the video but
as soon as I double click, I get an error message.

Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes.

By the way, I update to firmware ver 1.1 but I can't exactly
remember if it actually worked before the firmware upgrade.
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I actually got it to work on my computer here at work; it just doesn't work at home. This, for me, is good becasue I now know that its my home system and a windows issue that I can deal with better. I probably just need to reinstall something...windows/realplayer...

I think I'll look into that issue about the quicktime vs realplayer thing.
Lee Fairbanks2 said:
I am trying to view avi movies that I captured on the G2. They view
fine in the camera but once transfered to my system, the sound only
comes through. The video is static.

When using ZoomBrowser, I can view the thumbnail of the video but
as soon as I double click, I get an error message.

Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes.

By the way, I update to firmware ver 1.1 but I can't exactly
remember if it actually worked before the firmware upgrade.
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ACD See 5.0 plays the movies just fine...
Lee Fairbanks2 said:
I think I'll look into that issue about the quicktime vs realplayer
thing.
Lee Fairbanks2 said:
I am trying to view avi movies that I captured on the G2. They view
fine in the camera but once transfered to my system, the sound only
comes through. The video is static.

When using ZoomBrowser, I can view the thumbnail of the video but
as soon as I double click, I get an error message.

Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes.

By the way, I update to firmware ver 1.1 but I can't exactly
remember if it actually worked before the firmware upgrade.
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Hi Lee,

You probably need to download and install a CODEC to view the video. Here's a URL for reference:

http://www.jmcgowan.com/avicodecs.html

You can download most of them here:
http://www.sm-art.hu/link/

More here:
http://www.actioncamfilms.com/codec.htm

Microsoft.com also has a whole suite of CODECs which may be downloaded.

hth,

Pedro (who just registered trying to decide on a new 4 megapixel digital camera- see below)

p.s. it is between the Coolpix 4500 & the G2. Which should I pick? thanks.
Lee Fairbanks2 said:
I think I'll look into that issue about the quicktime vs realplayer
thing.
Lee Fairbanks2 said:
I am trying to view avi movies that I captured on the G2. They view
fine in the camera but once transfered to my system, the sound only
comes through. The video is static.

When using ZoomBrowser, I can view the thumbnail of the video but
as soon as I double click, I get an error message.

Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes.

By the way, I update to firmware ver 1.1 but I can't exactly
remember if it actually worked before the firmware upgrade.
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Thanks everyone, it was an avi/real player thing. I changed the default player to quicktime and it worked fine.

I'll check out those codecs ...thanks.
Lee Fairbanks2 said:
I think I'll look into that issue about the quicktime vs realplayer
thing.
Lee Fairbanks2 said:
I am trying to view avi movies that I captured on the G2. They view
fine in the camera but once transfered to my system, the sound only
comes through. The video is static.

When using ZoomBrowser, I can view the thumbnail of the video but
as soon as I double click, I get an error message.

Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes.

By the way, I update to firmware ver 1.1 but I can't exactly
remember if it actually worked before the firmware upgrade.
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