I was doing a movie in Poser, Poser locked while the movie was rendering. I restarted Poser. Since them I can't create an AVI. When in the "Save as" window when I click save I get the message. I've reinstalled Poser, clean and reinstalled all the patches. Any ideas? I saw several previous threads on this topic, but no solutions

Sounds like you have a problem with your .AVI codec You need to go to your device manager, I am hoping you have windows. Select multimedia devices and check to see if your video compression codecs are installed. Especially the ones that are called Microsoft video 1 etc. Are you getting the error message right after you specify the file name as click save? If you are the poser is having trouble locating the video compression codec. The procedure for fixing this will require more information.

Open the control panel and select Multimedia devices, then click on devices and then video compression codecs. Make not of what you find there.

You might try updating the windows media player to the latest version as well.

Maybe you'll have to refresh the OS. I think JKeller experienced this under WIN98 just after installing Office2K. The only thing that fixed it was a reinstall of WIN98.

That is an answer, but not the one I was hoping for. So every time Poser crashes during an animation I have to reinstall windoze? Windows is an fitting name for an OS that is so easily broken!

Windows98 installs right over itself. So it's not all that bad. Just takes about 30mins. You could try deleting all of your codecs first. Then re-install media player to create them again. ScottA

"Windows98 installs right over itself. So it's not all that bad. Just takes about 30 mins" Yeah... unless you're like me and got a damn Compaq and no Windows 98 disk--- just two "Full Restore" CD's that not only reinstall Windows, but also reformat EVERY drive! I know, I know--- this isn't the place for this, but it really irks me--- all that money that not only I spent, but that THEY make, both MS and Compaq, and I can't get a simple, stinking Windows 98 CD with it?!? ...... Just to stay ON topic, I actually had this happen to me once before. I can't remember what the solution was, but Norton Utilities took care of it somehow.

Are you using a good virus scanner? Problems with windows like that sounds very suspicious If you dont have a good updated virus scanner running all the time, you may have picked up funlove or something similar.

No Virus, Virus defs dated yesterday, Norton WinDoc found nothing. Reinstalled windoze any way after it ate every thing with a bombed install I installed it in a new directory. STILL NO ANIMATIONS AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!.... Now what?

CuriousLabs tech support?

Can Windoze still play any AVIs? i.e. is the codec ok? If so can Poser find it? Does Poser still play the "side-stepping guy" AVI on your progress bar when rendering?

I didn't miss the little dude missing from the render progress till you mentioned it. BUT If I go click on the AVI, WMP pops up and it plays fine. SO, the codec is installed and working, Poser has just lost touch with it somehow. It seems the only way I'm going to resolve this is going to begin with "Format c: /y /s"

Exact same troubles here -- on three different computers. Windoze knows where the AVI codec is, but Poser does not. All three worked fine at one time, then suddenly stopped creating or playing AVI's from Poser. Not a big item for me (normally output .tif sequences for inputting to video editing system) so I've never delt with it. If you should come up with anything helpful please share.

Nance and Nerd, are either of you running Office 2000 by any chance?

I had the problem so long ago that I can barely remember it now. Jeff remembers that reinstalling Windows 98 fixed it, but I'm starting to think I had to uninstall something as well. Office 2000, or some components thereof.

Another thing you might want to try, just on the off chance, is re-installing QuickTime. I've heard that even the PC version of Poser uses QT for something...not sure what though.

If I remember anything more I'll let you know...but I haven't had the problem since, so there is hope.

Well I gave in. Refreshing Windoze did no good. Completely removing and reloading poser did nothing but lose my sketch presets (The one thing I forgot to backup) Removing QT and WMP and all Compression codecs and reinstalling all those had no effect but to waste time. I even installd windows into a new folder (In an attempt to aviod a complete melt down. No Dice. Backup every thing and wipe out an otherwise health install of windoze. It now works again. How long though? Remember what caused it to flip was that Poser locked up during an animation. I'm sure there is some damn RSR file some where that got screwed up but nobody seems to know where it is. I sure hope to hell that Poser 5 doesn't have RSR files or at least is able to maintain them better. Remember folks all those "Out of Memory" errors are just screwed up RSR files. Delete the offending RSR and it will start working again. I just wish I could have found the one taht was ticking Poser off this time.

"How long though?"

If it makes you feel any better, Poser has locked up on me durring AVI renders literally hundreds of times. I only had that problem once, and haven't had it happen since.