websend.avi as a custom resource for TAnimate?

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In Delphi XE2, I try to use websend.avi as a custom resource for TAnimate, by including it in Project/Resources and Images, in the same way as referred here:

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Animate1.ResName := 'WEBSENDAVI';
Animate1.Active := True;

However, while the same procedure works fine with cool.avi, it always crashes with websend.avi:

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So it seems TAnimate can accept only certain AVI files, while it crashes with other AVI files.
Which are the rules for AVI files to work with TAnimate in the above way?

websend.avi uses CRAM-Microsoft Video 1, cool.avi uses (_RGB)-BI_RGB Raw Bitmap — user1580348, Jul 18 '13 at 12:08
better trace error in the sources of `TAnimate` component. The same message would pop up due to ANY error, even when it just cannot find the resource. So you better trace execution down to the reason of the error. — Arioch 'The, Jul 18 '13 at 12:40
JFTR, TAnimate is the lightest of lightweight AVI players... I wouldn't count on for much more than the "standard" windows AVI's for file transfer, etc. — Nick Hodges, Jul 18 '13 at 15:37

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '13 at 12:19

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The documentation explains that you can use AVI files with raw uncompressed frames, or with run length encoding compression. The AVI of yours that fails does not meet those requirements.

answered Jul 18 '13 at 12:19

David Heffernan

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And they must, IIRC, be soundless. – Rudy Velthuis Jul 18 '13 at 13:01
Thanks! Now I've used VirtualDub to convert websend.avi to RLE codec. Now it works with TAnimate! However the file size went from 48.6 KB to 343KB! – user1580348 Jul 18 '13 at 13:34
@user1580348 you may try GIF or some flavor of animated PNG (aPNG or MNG) but you would have to find different components for it. – Arioch 'The Jul 18 '13 at 13:46

websend.avi as a custom resource for TAnimate?

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