Can I insert amovie.ocx into Windows 7?

[Nocandu]

Hi

I have a program that when it completes the process of creating an animation opens and runs it in Windows Media Player, at least it did until I got my new computer with Windows 7.

When I completes the writing process which it does successfully I get a message to the effect that it can not find amovie.ocx.

I have found and downloaded the file, but can I place it into Windows 7 and make it active so that the movie will start?

I can run the movie files by going to the folder that they are saved in and starting them from there.

Mike

 

[Lemon13]

try
rundll32.exe amovie.ocx,RunDll /open %1
OPEN aif, auf, avi, midi, mov, mpeg, sound

or look at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766308(WS.10).aspx

(search for CorrectActiveMoviePath)

M. Knorr

MCSE, MCTS, MCSA, CCNA

 

[Nocandu]

Hi Lemon13

I'll give it a try.

Ok I did and I got almost same message,

"There was a problem starting amovie.ocx"

"amovie.ocx is not a valic Win32 application."

I guess I'll give up on this until I update to a newer version of the software.

Mike

 

[tlcscousin]

In a command prompt after placing the OCX file in system32 run
regsvr32 amovie.ocx

 

[Nocandu]

Hi tlcscousin

When I did this I got a message saying that the amovie.ocx file is not compatible with this version of Windows.

I said to look for a version compatible with (x86) 32bit or 64bit.

I'll look and see if I can find something that will work.

Thanks for the help.

Mike

 

[BadBigBen]

you may be missing the correct codecs, if the above does not work, then I would suggest you download the following codec pack and install it...

K-Lite Codec Pack 5.4.4 Full, Standard and Basic

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
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[Nocandu]

Hi Ben

I'll check that out.

Mike

 

[Nocandu]

Hi

Just came back to say that installing the Codec pack didn't help.

I'll give up on this, at least I can run them from Windows Explorer after they are done.

My guess is that someday when I update to newer software it will take care of itself.

Mike

 

[Nocandu]

Hi

I solved the problem, or some one else did actually.

A poster on the Poser forum placed it in the Windows/System folder instead of the System 32 folder.

That did the trick.

It used to start the Animation in Windows Media Player.

Now it starts the animation in a player of it's own but it does what I need.

It gives me a quick way to check my animations over and over until I get it right without having to navigate to the file every time to open it.

Mike