Avi as texture error

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# 1 06-01-2003 , 03:16 AM

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From what i understand, maya takes avi's as a valid texture imput. but, i havent been able to get it to take an avi or any other movie for that fact, as a texture file. i keep getting some error similar to this.......{ERROR, Cannot open AVI (Microsoft® audio/visual interleaved) file "C:/so and so.avi" as an image file: it contains no image tracks
RIFF tag size(122884448 + 8) and file size(122884608) don't match
AVI compression mode is not supported}...anyone know whats wrong?

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# 2 06-01-2003 , 03:17 AM

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Another weird thing is it wont even take an avi made by maya.

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# 3 06-01-2003 , 03:26 AM

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You have to use the movie node, not a texture node. Then you have to enable the Use Frame Extension on the movie node and animate the Frame Extension for example by keying it.

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Last edited by kbrown; 06-01-2003 at 03:33 AM.

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