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Question: What computers and operating systems can use Indeo® technology?
A video file compressed with the Indeo® video Release 3.2 codec can play back on any system that supports QuickTime* for Windows* or QuickTime for Macintosh*. Videos compressed with the Indeo video interactive codec can play on systems that support Video for Windows* only. Video clips compressed with the Indeo video codec in the .AVI format can play back in Video for Windows (Windows* 95 and Windows* 3.x); and video clips compressed with the Indeo video codec in the .MOV format can play back in QuickTime. (See the section entitled "Cross-platform Development Questions" for information on utilities that can convert between these two formats.) In order for a computer to play video compressed with a given codec, that codec must be installed on the computer.


Question: I need to convert between .MOVand .AVI format files. Is a utility available to do this?
Both commercial and noncommercial utilities are available for file conversion:

Commercial:
Ulead Systems' Media Studio Pro* 2.5 (for PC) converts .MOV files to .AVI format. Adobe Premiere* 4.0 (for Windows 3.1) or Premiere 4.2 (for Windows 95 and NT*) converts files of either format to the other. In addition, Adobe Premiere 4.2 features special support for Indeo video interactive.

Noncommercial:
VfW Converter (for Mac) converts .MOV files to .AVI format and AVItoQT Utility (for Mac) converts .AVI files to .MOV format. Both are available in the file QTAVI.sit from Microsoft*'s ftp site or CompuServe* forum. For the PC, Intel currently offers Smartvid for .AVI to .MOV or .MOV to .AVI conversion, available on all of Intel's electronic forums. However, Smartvid currently cannot reinterleave audio and video.

For more information about conversion issues between the .MOV and .AVI file formats, see Cross-Platform Development Using Indeo Video.

Microsoft's ftp site also offers Video for Windows 1.1 Macintosh* utilities. It can be found at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/Multimedia/Jumpstart/VfW11-Mac.



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