Canon and CODEC HELL

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Apparently Canon is using a very old MJPEG codec to create
movie files in their S1 IS camera. Gspot says the codec is
"Motion JPEG including Huffman Tables", which, according to
other websites is a format that existed before the MJPEG
standard was even finalized.

Has anyone found a workaround for this? All I'm trying to do
is demultiplex and make some very basic edits.

Thanks.

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Actually, thinking about it, Premiere maybe a bit expensive just to do this.
I am sure there must be other cheaper image editing software which will
allow you to import MJPEG.


"A" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Adobe Premiere supports Motion JPEG. Import it into Premiere, edit it and
> export it as an MPEG, or what other format you want.
>

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In article <effxd.7228$F6.1294796@news.siol.net>,
"SleeperMan" <SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote:

> Mike wrote:
> > Apparently Canon is using a very old MJPEG codec to create
> > movie files in their S1 IS camera. Gspot says the codec is
> > "Motion JPEG including Huffman Tables", which, according to
> > other websites is a format that existed before the MJPEG
> > standard was even finalized.
> >
> > Has anyone found a workaround for this? All I'm trying to do
> > is demultiplex and make some very basic edits.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I didn't have any problems with it. I tried Ulead's Video studio and
> CyberLink's Power Director - both can read it just fine. Except saving in
> same codec require special jpeg movie codec to be installed - but you can
> save in Divx, XVid etc...
> But, i must admit i was a bit surprised, too when i saw S1 uses motion jpeg
> format. On the other hand, it's still better than Olympus, which uses
> quicktime which needs quicktime player to be installed, while for S1 you
> don't need install anything to watch movies. Maybe in the future cameras
> will use other codecs, like Divx, Xvid, MPEG...but i guess it will require
> waaay more powerfull processor than it is now in cameras...

The QuickTime file format is publicly documented, as is MJPEG. Many
stand-alone players can read the Oly movie format.

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"MarkH" <markat@atdot.dot.dot> wrote in message news:M6lxd.1146968$SM5.84629@news.easynews.com...
> "A" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news:cq3si0$q0e$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk:
>
> > Actually, thinking about it, Premiere maybe a bit expensive just to do
> > this. I am sure there must be other cheaper image editing software
> > which will allow you to import MJPEG.
> >
> >
> > "A" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> > news:cq3sd8$1os$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >> Adobe Premiere supports Motion JPEG. Import it into Premiere, edit
> >> it and export it as an MPEG, or what other format you want.
>
> Yes, there's Virtualdub, a free program that is capable of opening the avi
> and then saving it in a different avi format.

Thanks Mark. That's exactly what I was looking for.