Movies made with MATLAB do not play in Power Point

[Lewis Bartel]

I have had the same problem that appeared in August. I have made avi
files using Indeo3 and Indeo5 compression. They play okay using
Windows Media Viewer; however they do not play when brought into
Power Point (Office 2003). When using Indeo3 I get black streaks on
the top of the frames and using Indeo5 the frame is completely black.
I can play movies created using a previous version of Power Point,
but not the latest version. My temporary solution is to use the no
compression option; however the files are approximately 100 times
larger. Has anyone solved this problem?

[Bryan Smith]

Lewis Bartel wrote:
>
>
> I have had the same problem that appeared in August. I have made
> avi
> files using Indeo3 and Indeo5 compression. They play okay using
> Windows Media Viewer; however they do not play when brought into
> Power Point (Office 2003). When using Indeo3 I get black streaks
> on
> the top of the frames and using Indeo5 the frame is completely
> black.
> I can play movies created using a previous version of Power Point,
> but not the latest version. My temporary solution is to use the no
> compression option; however the files are approximately 100 times
> larger. Has anyone solved this problem?

this is a VERY inelegant solution, but it works, and is the method to
which I have resorted due to similar issues. the method involves
third-party freeware, called virtualDub (www.virtualdub.org), which
is an AVI editing program that tends to work pretty well. So I save
my movies in Matlab as uncompressed AVI files, then I open them in
virtualDub, and resave using the compression algorithm of choice (I
think Indeo3 and 5 codecs are still included with the latest release
of virtualDub, although I think with the recent service pack, Windows
stopped supporting Indeo compression.)

for the best results (at least in my hands), you can also try saving
each frame as a TIFF into a multi-tiff image using the 'append'
option along with <imwrite>. I know virtualDub works with BMP,
so it should also work with TIFF.

let me kow how it goes,
bryan

[Tido Röder]

I haven't tried this with Power Point, but if those HUGE uncompressed
movie files are getting on your nerves, try the Huffyuv video codec...
I think it's available for free (see www.fourcc.org) if it's not
included with Windows altogether. To access this codec from within
Matlab, use the syntax

aviobject = avifile(videofile,'compression','HFYU');

You'll get a bunch of warnings but at least for my setting, the
compressed output works fine.

Hope that helps,
Tido

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:09:02 -0500, Bryan Smith wrote:
>Lewis Bartel wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have had the same problem that appeared in August. I have made
>> avi
>> files using Indeo3 and Indeo5 compression. They play okay using
>> Windows Media Viewer; however they do not play when brought into
>> Power Point (Office 2003). When using Indeo3 I get black streaks
>> on
>> the top of the frames and using Indeo5 the frame is completely
>> black.
>> I can play movies created using a previous version of Power Point,
>> but not the latest version. My temporary solution is to use the no
>> compression option; however the files are approximately 100 times
>> larger. Has anyone solved this problem?
>
>this is a VERY inelegant solution, but it works, and is the method to
>which I have resorted due to similar issues. the method involves
>third-party freeware, called virtualDub (www.virtualdub.org), which
>is an AVI editing program that tends to work pretty well. So I save
>my movies in Matlab as uncompressed AVI files, then I open them in
>virtualDub, and resave using the compression algorithm of choice (I
>think Indeo3 and 5 codecs are still included with the latest release
>of virtualDub, although I think with the recent service pack, Windows
>stopped supporting Indeo compression.)
>
>for the best results (at least in my hands), you can also try saving
>each frame as a TIFF into a multi-tiff image using the 'append'
>option along with <imwrite>. I know virtualDub works with BMP,
>so it should also work with TIFF.
>
>let me kow how it goes,
>bryan

[Herbert Ramoser]

Lewis Bartel wrote:
> I have had the same problem that appeared in August. I have made avi
> files using Indeo3 and Indeo5 compression. They play okay using
> Windows Media Viewer; however they do not play when brought into
> Power Point (Office 2003). When using Indeo3 I get black streaks on
> the top of the frames and using Indeo5 the frame is completely black.
> I can play movies created using a previous version of Power Point,
> but not the latest version. My temporary solution is to use the no
> compression option; however the files are approximately 100 times
> larger. Has anyone solved this problem?

Microsoft has stopped supporting the Indeo codecs. You may consider
using one of the Microsoft codecs supplied with Windows: Mpeg4 v1 or v2.
The fourcc codes required for avifile are 'mpg4' and 'mp42'.

-Herbert