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Offline tloebl

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Unable to create avi file
« on: 2019 January 24 14:03:12 »
I installed the latest rev today in Windows 7. This function has worked in the prior rev. I attached an image...

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Re: Unable to create avi file
« Reply #1 on: 2019 January 24 14:38:23 »
try putting in the full path to the ffmpeg.exe executable. not sure how environment variables work on windows, but probably pixinsight does not have the directory that contains ffmpeg in its PATH variable...

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Re: Unable to create avi file
« Reply #2 on: 2019 January 24 14:59:12 »
You can also just drop a copy of ffmpeg.exe into the "c:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\" directory.


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Re: Unable to create avi file
« Reply #3 on: 2019 January 24 15:25:06 »
Thanks for the tips. My fault... when I uninstalled the earlier rev I dumped FFMPEG with the bin directory.