Video Codecs

Answers in this category:

1. Playing AVI-JPG movies on Windows
2. How can I use TrueType fonts in Blender
3. How can I convert 3D Studio, Lightwave or other files?
4. How do you play back DivX movies (Windows)

1 - Playing AVI-JPG movies on Windows

Contributed by Daniel Jircik.

To play back Blender's AVI files in the Windows Media Player, download this file:

https://members.yourlink.net/gruff/filez/jpeg_avi_codec.zip
Unzip and right click on either .inf file (mmx or no-mmx). Choose 'Install' from the Pop-Up menu, then restart. Windows Media Player will Natively handle the Blender AVI-Jpeg Format!

Editors note:
Also there are freely available conversion packages, to convert AVI to MPG.
This is a handy little utility.
https://heroinewarrior.com/mpeg2movie.php3

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2 - How can I use TrueType fonts in Blender

Contributed by Zycho.

Blender supports Adobe Type 1 fonts. You can use the Elefont software, made by Armanisoft, to create 3D text with TrueType fonts and save it as a DXF file, which you can load with Blender.

You can download the software here:

https://www.armanisoft.ch/webdesign/Elefont.htm

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3 - How can I convert 3D Studio, Lightwave or other files?

Contributed by anonymous.

3dto3d can do this - check out https://www.stmuc.com/thbaier/. Use this free program to convert your object to VRML or DXF and load these into Blender.

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4 - How do you play back DivX movies (Windows)

Contributed by B@rt.

To play back DivX with the Windows Media Player, download the DivX drivers from the following URL and install them:

https://divx.forpresident.nl/index_main.html

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