{"id":83,"date":"2010-08-22T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2010-08-22T19:32:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T23:32:26","slug":"getting-your-old-logitech-webcam-videos-working-on-windows-7-x64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/getting-your-old-logitech-webcam-videos-working-on-windows-7-x64\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting your old Logitech webcam videos working on Windows 7 x64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, do you have old AVI videos from an old USB or Parallel Logitech web cam?  I did, and I happened across them recently &#8211; but they won&#8217;t play in Windows 7 because the CODEC&#8217;s cannot be found.  <\/p>\n<p>These videos dated to around 1998 and I wanted to watch them, however I could not figure out how to get the video working under Windows 7 x64 due to the obvious codec issues.  After much research, I found out that the correct codecs to play my videos &#8211; specifically the Intel Indeo IV41 codec &#8211; are indeed present in Windows 7, but they are not hooked into the registry.<\/p>\n<p>(NOTE &#8211; ONLY FOR Windows 7 x64).  You&#8217;ll need a different solution for x86 Windows 7. ** use at your own risk, of course.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Enable-IV41-codec-on-Win7-x64.zip'>Download This File<\/a>, unzip and DOUBLE CLICK to load the settings into your registry.  A reboot may be needed.  <\/p>\n<p>When you are done, double click on the AVI files from your old Logitech webcam and the videos should play fine!<\/p>\n<p>I hope this saves some of you time &#8211; it took me a few hours to track this down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, do you have old AVI videos from an old USB or Parallel Logitech web cam? I did, and I happened across them recently &#8211; but they won&#8217;t play in Windows 7 because the CODEC&#8217;s cannot be found. These videos dated to around 1998 and I wanted to watch them, however I could not figure out how to get the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,28],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-bits","tag-logitech-webcam","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}