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Err Msg: Importing the Movie Failed. Error -50

Article ID: 168352

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to play a video (.avi) file on a Web page using Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.01 for Macintosh, the following error message may occur:
Importing the movie failed.
Error -50

CAUSE

This error message occurs when the .avi file has been encoded with a unsupported compression/decompression software (codec). Some .avi files can be played correctly while others, using an unsupported codec, may produce error messages.

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