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How can a small mpeg file be inserted into a screensaver?

In an attempt to make a screensaver different from the usual series of photos and transitions I inserted a 10 second mpg file into one of the pictures assuming it was quite a normal process.

The result works fine on my computer in Opus 4.50 but when I publish it with the mpg file in the resource folder, as a screensaver onto my computer, the video does not work.

According to DW there is a work-around, but I’m not sure what.

Regards, Glenn

Hi,

Thank you for your enquiry.

I have tried to reproduce the problems you describe, but the screensaver publishes successfully and displays the video file on all test machines.

Are you certain that your video file is in MPEG-1 format and is not actually an MPEG-2 file? All versions of Windows come supplied with Microsoft's MPEG-1 decoder, but only systems which have DVD decoder software installed (such as Cyberlink PowerDVD and Intervideo WinDVD) will be able to display MPEG-2 video.

Try downloading an authentic MPEG-1 video file from the following location , import this into your video object and see if the problem is still apparent:

http://www.darim.co.kr/ftp/mpegs/lions.mpg

If this file does not display the problem, I strongly suspect that your original source video is encoded as MPEG-2 and you will need to convert this to MPEG-1 to resolve the issue.

Kind regards,