Avi files

[Ausmortay]

Hello! I have been using pictures to exe for sometime now and recently encountered a problem- When I save to an .avi file it will not play in quicktime, windows media player or any other viewer that I bring it up in, all I get is the music and a write screen. Any ideas why?

In quicktime pro- it says the compressor cant be found and is a black screen...

[JRR]

The quick answer is that you can't save PTE as an .avi file.

When preparing the output for a DVD, there is a temporary .avi file created, but it is only a temp file.

You are not the first person to mention this, I think there has been a request to make it a permanent file, but with all the other more urgent requests we have burdened Igor (the software designer) with, I doubt if this is a very high priority.

In the meantime an .exe file works for most occasions, but there are those other occasions....

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Obviously this answer is incorrect, sorry about that.

See below

[Ken Cox]

Ausmortay

for a step by step how to

read

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...t=ST&f=4&t=1408

it is also covered in the help file of the program

ken

[Lin Evans]

Hello! I have been using pictures to exe for sometime now and recently encountered a problem- When I save to an .avi file it will not play in quicktime, windows media player or any other viewer that I bring it up in, all I get is the music and a write screen. Any ideas why?

Actually, yes - and you "can" save a PTE show as an AVI and play it in Windows Media Player, etc. The "default" is to save a temporary AVI "template" used to create a DVD with other software but which is not the same as an AVI movie, but you can also save to a regular AVI movie.

To do this just click in the Video Codec block and change from the PTE Video Codec to something like the Microsoft MPG 4 video codec and save. It will take a bit of time just as it does when you make a DVD slideshow using other software, but there is absolutely no reason why you can't make a normal movie which runs with Window's Media Player, etc. from a PTE slideshow.

Lin