What AVI compression formats do you support?

There are a limited number of AVI input compression formats supported by Bio-Formats and thus supported by OMERO.importer:

• MSRLE (Microsoft Run Length Encoding)
• MS_VIDEO
• JPEG

More compression formats are supported if you use a MOV container and have QuickTime for Java installed. However, the portability of QTJ is very limited (Mac OS X and Windows only), it has several bugs, and has been deprecated by Apple.

All these source formats are at present stored uncompressed in OMERO.server after import, so if your goal is to reduce drive space usage overall, having a compressed source movie is not going to help.