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not-logged-in-daonlyfreez · Guest

Sound doesn't seem to matter, clock.avi has sound.

The file loading thing: I think it depends on the avi's properties, mostly encoding. I tested, and bitrate doesn't seem to matter. If your avi is not too heavily encoded, it should work.

The good thing about this, is that one could use the already available animations (bitmaps, icons) to enhance one's Gui, without dragging it along with the 'installer'. Simply use what is already available, and optionally add your own.

It would be interesting to have a list of most probable Windows default dll avi resources on all versions of OSs. And exe's too.

Does anybody know how to extract and use the bitmap resources in dll's, exe's etcet. in your Gui? Icons can be accessed, but bitmaps not.

There is already so much available Wink

Ok, I overdid it with the smiley's, I admit Wink

(got dragged into Goyyah-mode a bit Razz

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SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5594

PhiLho · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:55 am Post subject:

SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5594

PhiLho · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:32 am Post subject:

Hey, abcAVI Tag Editor 1.8.1 is excellent!
It shown that two of my files have errors, that all of them have no sound, is able to show the codec and even the AVI file structure!
Wow. Good interface too, it supports drag'n'dropping multiple AVI files.
Hum, the export to clipboard doesn't work. [EDIT] Yes it does, but don't have a default format. I have to choose one. Very flexible system.

For example, the CtrlAltDel.avi file extracted from MSGina.dll:
Duration: 0 h 0 min 4,97 s
Video stream: Run length encoded 8bpp RGB image <0x00000001>, 200x120, 8 bit, 71 frm, 14,2857 frm/s, 22,130 kbit/s
Video quality: 1941 eff.bits per frame 3x4

Clock.avi:
Duration: 0 h 0 min 12,00 s
Video stream: Run length encoded 8bpp RGB image <0x00000001>, 321x321, 8 bit, 12 frm, 1,0000 frm/s, 43,497 kbit/s
Video quality: 32705 eff.bits per frame 3x4
Audio stream: DSP Group True Speech <0x0022>, 8000 Hz, 1 bit, 8,536 kbit/s, Mono

Torch.avi (made from a Gif, not displayed by the control):
Duration: 0 h 0 min 0,60 s
Video stream: Microsoft Video 1 'CRAM' <0x4D415243>, 18x32, 16 bit, 6 frm, 10,0000 frm/s, 27,040 kbit/s
Video quality: 1144 eff.bits per frame 3x4

Ruby.avi (found in MS Platform SDK, not displayed):
Duration: 0 h 0 min 8,60 s
Video stream: Cinepak by CTi (ex. Radius) Vector Quantization 'cvid' <0x64697663>, 320x240, 24 bit, 86 frm, 10,0000 frm/s, 1859,704 kbit/s
Video quality: 186437 eff.bits per frame 3x4

I guess that AVIs displayed by the control must have a RLE (run lenght encoded) stream...
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

not-logged-in-daonlyfreez · Guest

If you have a nice animated Gif that you'd like to add to your Gui: I found this program:

Gif2Avi (freeware, 180k, Gui)

I converts animated Gifs directly to Avi, and has a RLE compression option, so generated files are made smaller, but can still be shown in an AHK Gui Cool

Ofcource, there is usually a considerable size increase when converted, but alas, nothing much can be done about that, I guess...

@PhiLho: Regarding the resourced bitmaps, I think you misunderstood. I would like to be able to use them in a Gui directly, without having to extract them first, like we do with this script with AVI resources (or files now too).

SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5594

PhiLho · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:53 pm Post subject:

Img2Avi Jpg2Avi Bmp2Avi Gif2Avi

SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5594

not-logged-in-daonlyfreez · Guest

@PhiLho: I tried the freeware you provided, but it doesn't generate the desired result even when fed the images in the Gui, and it shows a 'splash msg' if you run it from the command line, which prevents it from working, and - according to the site

PhiLho · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:27 pm Post subject:

Well, I must admit I posted without testing first...
I ran the program, and despite a warning in the About box that it should be used only with images generated by the VisionGS utility, I was able to load 9 PNG images of same size and generate an AVI file (using compression 0, ie. no compression) that is shown by the script. Using the interface, not the command line.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

PhiLho · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject:

SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5594

Dear PhiLho, Smile

Thanks for all the information!

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10465

I just got around to reading this topic. Nice work!

This should help me implement, test, and document the AVI control when the time comes. In the meantime, if anyone would like to package this up into something more succinct and easy-to-use (assuming that's feasible), I could include it as an example on the GuiControls page.

Thanks.

Stefan14 · Guest

the demo works, yes Smile

but how can i use it in my small gui with a small avi??? Sad