List Video Codecs, FourCC

Lists all available video compressors for usage with avifile in Matlab

Description

  This function GETFOURCC gives a list of available Video encoder-codecs in
  the current Windows installation. The FourCC code of a codec in the list
  can be used to select a custom compressor in the AVIFILE function.
 
  Usage :
 
    getfourcc , Will display a list with available video codecs
        or
    L = getfourcc , Returns a struct with all available video codecs
    
 
  Supported OS,
    Windows NT, 2000, Vista, Windows 7
 
 
  Example Output,
 
    Four CC | Description (Driver / DLL)
  -----------+---------------------------------------------- -----
      mrle | Microsoft - Run Length Encoding (msrle32.dll)
      msvc | Microsoft - Video 1 (msvidc32.dll)
      i420 | Intel - Indeo 4 codec (iyuv_32.dll)
      cvid | Supermac - Cinepak (iccvid.dll)
    
    See also avifile/addframe, avifile/close, movie2avi

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a)
• Other requirements: Windows

[Sylvain Bernhardt]

 

[Nikolay S.]

Hi.
It fails to display LAGS codec installed on my system, while I'm able to generate video with it using AVIFILE

[Zira]

HI, CAN I KNOW HOW THO INSTALL IT? I'M STILL NEW IN MATLAB

[Dirk-Jan Kroon]

*Kenneth Cate
Thank you for your comment. I understand the usefulness of adding the try and catch line. But why replace i by "k"?

[Kenneth Cate]

Remove trailing backslashes from the two reglok= lines

Put try / catch around the keys = winqueryreg line like so:

try
keys = winqueryreg('name','HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',[reglok, '\Drivers32']);
catch %#ok<CTCH>
continue
end

Use k instead of i in:

for k=1:length(keys)
key=keys{k};

I make some other changes to dress up the display of the table that I could send you if you would like.

[Richard Crozier]

Kalim DElia, you're probably using windows XP which is not supported, see help above. It would be great if this did support XP, is there any way to achieve this?

[Kalim DElia]

I Have this problem

??? Error using ==> winqueryreg
Specified key is invalid.

Error in ==> getfourcc at 37
keys = winqueryreg('name','HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',[reglok
'\Drivers32']);