error in using aviread

In aviread at 29 In Untitled at 1 ??? Error using ==> aviread at 81 Unable to locate decompressor Indeo5 to decompress video stream. See Mathworks Technical Solution 1-4G50QZ for more info.

Error in ==> Untitled at 1 a = aviread('video.avi');

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See this: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/96364-why-do-i-receive-an-error-when-attempting-to-play-avi-files-created-by-matlab-or-simmechanics-with-t

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/?search_submit=answers&query=indeo5&term=indeo5

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

For 64-bit systems, the indeo5 codec is apparently not available (see Adopting 64-Bit Windows).

Quoting:

• ‘Indeo video codec is not available on many 64-bit systems; specify an alternate codec, or migrate to newer facilities such as VideoReader and VideoWriter’

My impression is that this page is current. (I can’t say as much for ‘Mathworks Technical Solution 1-4G50QZ’ that seems to have vanished into the aether. I apologise for that, even though it’s not my error.)