Problem opening avi file

Hi all Gurus,

Hope someone could assist:

I have an animated gif which I would like to open in a vb form. The following 2 files were in the directory "c:\test" :
1) animate.gif
2) animate.avi

In my new vb project, I have added the component "Microsoft Windows Common Controls 2 6.0" which is the c:\winnt\system32\mscomct2.ocx

In my form1, I have added the new animation control name "animation1"

These codes were added:

Public Sub Form_load()
animation1.open "c:\image\animate.avi"
animation1.play
end sub

At run time, I got this error message:

Run-Time error '35752'
Unable to open avi file


Could anyone please help. Thanks in advance


Newbie

I have a sample program (Listed below) that does the same thing as you depict so maybe something is wrong with your file? Two Command buttons, (cmdPlay and cmdStop), a CommonDialog control (DlgOpen) + the Animation control (anmAVI) is all you need to run this sample, with some editing of the dlgOpen.InitDIr statement.

private Sub cmdPlay_Click()
' Configure a CommonDialog control to allow the
' user to find .avi files to play. The CommonDialog
' control is named "dlgOpen." The Animation control
' is named "anmAVI."
dlgOpen.Filter = "avi files (*.avi)|*.avi"
dlgOpen.InitDir = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Graphics\Videos"
dlgOpen.ShowOpen
anmAVI.Open dlgOpen.FileName
anmAVI.Play
End Sub

'This code stops the video playing:

private Sub cmdStop_Click()
anmAVI.Stop
End Sub





John G