Not developed anymore since 2004, this codec might be obsolete for some or still necessary for others.Ligos Indeo Codec is useful, above all, for gamers.It was one of the first codecs that allowed full-speed playback without any need for hardware acceleration.
I recently found a reddit post of a guy doing some incredible work restoring old 8mm family movies. Last year I converted about 80 of my dad's old movies to mp4 using a Wolverine movie digitizer. I was pleased with the results, but after seeing the conversions this guy on reddit was getting as well as others that I've since found I'm thinking I can probably do a lot better. While I've never used directly I've been aware of what it does for years. One of the guys doing really nice conversions has a website here: where he says his AviSynth script is on doom9.
Unfortunately their forums seem to be down. In the meantime I thought I'd play around with AviSynth just to make sure I could get it to work.
Vids Iv50 Decompressor
Using the AviSynth getting started wiki I tried some simple things on an existing movie on my computer. AVi is a container, not a codec, and AVI can contain many codecs inclujding MJPEG and VXid. If your AVI is encoded h264, use FFMS2 or LSMASH.
Yeah I realize that. It's been years since I've even thought about installing video codecs.
I had just assumed that there would be SOME codecs on my computer, but it looks like with modern media players you don't have to install individual codecs like you did years ago. I just installed xvid again from another source and the older avi worked with the script.For the h264 codec I installed it from but when I use the script on my mp4 converted to avi all that happens is opens, I get a message saying Opening media and the the player closes after a few seconds.Any idea what could be causing that? I got the problem with the h264 codec figured out. When I tried running the script in it was reporting that I didn't have the audio codec installed.
Video Codec Iv50
I didn't know there was an audio stream because the cameras used to record these 8mm movies weren't capable of recording audio! For some reason the Wolverine movie digitizer was creating an audio stream when it created the movies. I guess the makers decided it's easier to just create an audio stream in case one exists rather than figuring out if a given movie actually had audio.So, after stripping audio stream out with the video will now open in VirtualDub. All other players seem to have various problems with the script (but not the actual video). I don't really care about that though.