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This file describes some of the common warnings and errors that
you might encounter while running XAnim 2.70.3 and above.
For the purposes of most of the errors messages, assume this
was the command line:
"xanim anim_file"
1) Unable to open/read animation: anim_file
This means either XAnim was unable to find the file "anim_file"
or it did not have read permission for file "anim_file".
2) Unknown or unsupported animation type: anim_file
XAnim doesn't recognize "anim_file" as being in a format
that it supports.
3) malloc err
If "malloc err" occurs, either by itself or within a sentence, it
means that you do not have enough memory to view that particular
animation with the options you selected.
For most animation formats, the "+f" option can significantly
reduce memory usage, but can lead to audio/video sync problems
if playing back from a CDROM. Also note, not all formats can
make use of the +f option. See "xanim.readme" for more details
on this subject.
4) AVI Video Codec: Intel Indeo R3.x depth=24 is unsupported by this executable.
QT Video Codec: Intel Indeo R3.x depth=24 is unsupported by this executable.
AVI Video Codec: Radius Cinepak depth=24 is unsupported by this executable.
QT Video Codec: Radius Cinepak depth=24 is unsupported by this executable.
Or similiar.
If you get one of the above errors messages, it means that you
did not compile in Radius Cinepak or Intel Indeo support into
XAnim. You will want to read the "cinepak.readme" and "intel.readme"
for instructions on how to do this.
Since different files are required for each machine/OS combination,
the readme files distributed with your particular revision of XAnim
may be out of date as I add support for newer machines. In which
case you'll want to grab the latest readme files at the following
WWW sites:
http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html
http://smurfland.cit.buffalo.edu/xanim/home.html
http://www.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/xanim/
or via anonymous ftp from ftp xanim.va.pubnix.com [199.170.0.28]
5) Video Codec: Unknown XXXX(7768616d) depth=8 is unsupported by this exec.
Where XXXX is any four letter combination.
Both AVI and Quicktime files can make use of many different Video
Codecs. New ones are being developed all the time and most of them
are proprietary and specs are not readily available(if at all).
Also, many Video Codecs can have different depths. XAnim may
support one depth, but not another. The depth has nothing to
do with your display type.
The above warning message indicates that XAnim is not familiar
with that particular Video Codec. You should contact me with
the above information, where you obtained the animation file
and any other information that might help me identify the
Vendor/Software responsible for producing it. I can then
attempt to obtain the specifications from them so that I
may support that format, providing there are no licensing fees.
6) Warning: No supported Video frames found.
This occurs in when XAnim can not find any video frames
inside a Quicktime or AVI file. Current revisions of
XAnim do not support audio only Quicktime/AVI files.
This will change in the near future.
7) AVI vid dlta: read failed
This is a warning message. It means XAnim encountered the
end of the animation file BEFORE it was supposed to. This
typically occurs when an animation file was truncated
for whatever reason. It is common for this to occur
when downloading via the WWW during peak traffic hours.
XAnim will still display any full frames that it
found before the end of the file.
8) QT: file possibly truncated or missing .rsrc info
Quicktime animations usually store critical file
headers at the very end of the file. If the file
was truncated for whatever reason, then these
headers are missing and the file is unplayable
by anything.
This can also occur if the file was not properly
transferred from the Macintosh and the critical
headers were no added to the end of the data
fork. Again, not playable.
NOTE: 27062 incorrectly reports this error with the
new format quicktimes. 27063 fixes this.
9) QT: This is only .data fork. Need .rsrc fork
This means the Quicktime animation was not
properly prepared and transferred from the
Macintosh. Critical header information is
missing. This file is unplayable by anything.