Why Won't This AVI File Copy?

Sometimes I try to copy an AVI file onto an external USB or to my Apple TV. Every once in a while I get one file that starts out copying, but then I get an error message saying it "could not be read or written. (Error code -36)". The file names have no unusual characters in them.
Anybody have an idea why this is? Thanks.
By the way I have an iBook and I'm running OS 10.4.11 on it.

Hi Homer, is this File Transfer being done via SMB, or to an MS-DOs/Fat32 Drive?
If so there would be a 2 to 4GB file size limit.
For error -36, might try this...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301580
Well, in pure Apple File System talk... -36 ioErr I/O error (bummers)
Not very helpful, but generally means a Drive quit being Readable or Writable since starting the operation...
http://fuzzy.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/ioerror-36/

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maybe if you provided some information someone could help
What version of iPhoto? Of the OS? Why do you think it is getting larger? what exactly are you doing?
Could it be downloading photos from Your PhotoStream?
LN

QT won't open .avi files...

I just made a knew thread before but I couldn't edit it. Maybe it was .avi files and not .div files QT couldn't open. I changed it by mistake and couldn't remember which it was. Anyway, can someone help me with what codecs I need?
Thanks!

AVI is just a container. A bucket or a box that carries things.
You could have a bucket of water or a bucket of strawberries (or a bucket of blood if your are a pirate). But it's just a container.
Video uses compressions schemes to fit the data into a file. Video uses compressor de-compressors (codecs) to achieve that goal.
Not all codecs (thousands of them) are available to the software you are using to open and display (decode = decompress) them and, since there are so many, there is no way you can open just any file with just one player.
On the Internet there are 4 major players (viewers):
QuickTime (Apple Computer)
WMP (Microsoft)
Real (Real Player)
Flash Video (Adobe, previously Macromedia)
You nearly always have to fall back on one of these players to view video media.
Real Player can view most QuickTime created content but QuickTime can't even open Real Media formats (.rm).
QuickTime Player can view some (but not the newer) Flash Media format (.swf) and Flash can import most QuickTime formats and convert them.
QuickTime, via Flip4Mac, can now view most WMP formats but WMP can't open most QuickTime file formats.
Confused? There are even more issues in play!
Codecs are "software" based. What is written for a PC won't work on a Mac and vice versa so their developers need to write new versions for each OS.
As newer codecs are developed older ones are obsoleted and drop out of use. It may take an older machine to play the file. Many codecs are "proprietary" and only allow viewing using their software or third party "converters" to make them work without them.
Last chance with QuickTime trying to play your AVI file (a container that Microsoft tried to kill of years ago). Open the file with QuickTime Player and then open the Movie Info (renamed Inspector in version 7.2). This info window should show what codec was used to make the file even though QuickTime may not be able to display it.
A Google search for codec name +Mac may help you find the version used in your AVI. Be sure to install a version compatible to your machine.

Quicktime 7 won't play avi files

can someone please tell me why this is?
It's only stopped playing them since its been upgraded
i just get a white screen and the message that there might be a missing component?
Sorry if this question has already been posted!
Please HELP
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

If QuickTime is set to play avi files in System Preferences, then the avi might not be one that QuickTime can play. There are several proprietary avi codecs. You might try VLC player or some other player that can play all the different kinds of avi codecs.

What Presets for This Avi File?

I have a couple of .avi files of musical movies (from tv) that I would like to edit in Premiere (which I've virtually never used before, only some intermittent stuff with my little digital camera... no real knowledge ).
What I want to do is simply extract the singing and dancing from the storyline.
Windows tells me this much about the files:
624 x 352 pixels
bit rate 128kbps
audio sample size 16 bit
audio Lame MP3
video 23 frames per sec
data 1102kbps
video sample 24bit
XVID compression
and gspot gives me this, most of which I don't even understand:
container
avi v1 Interleave 1 vid frame (42ms)
Audio frames aligned on interleave
Video 304MB
User data
[ISFT] transcode-1.0.6
[USER] XviD0050
Audio
Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Info 48000Hz 128kb/s tot, Join Stereo LAME 3.9
Video
Codec XVID Name XviD ISO MPEG-4
Len 44:23 Frms 63851 kbps 959 Qf 0.182
Pics/s 23.976 Frames/s 23.976
pic 624 x 352
sar 1.773 par 1.000 dar 1.773
Now those figures don't match any of Premiere's existing 'presets' and don't provide enough info for me to make up a custom preset.
Can anyone help me out? Tell me what presets to put in or direct me to software that will interrogate this file and get the preset info for me?
OR: if there's an easier way/software to do what i want to do - what is it?
regards,
ab

The Xvid CODEC will be a real problem. For the rest, a Desktop Preset with the attributes customized to match, will get you to editing - just not with the Xvid CODEC. I would use Harm's advice to convert to DV-AVI Type II, and issues should go away.
With Harm's other suggestion, I have found that CyberLink's PowerDirector program does an OK job with Xvid/DivX material, but it IS heavily compressed and is a streaming media delivery format. It should ONLY be used as such, and not as source footage. Also, Premiere Elements will have the same issues, as will PrPro.
For some more background on CODEC's, this ARTICLE might prove useful.
Good luck,
Hunt

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