AVI ARBC Codec not found

Hi,

I have some problems with old AVI files, their codec are "ARBC".
I have google it, but no result.
Only the audio, black video and a message written.

They works on Windows 95 Media Player. But seems to not be compatible with modern Windows.
Also Windows 98 can't read them.

They come from Lion King Activity Center from Disney.

I want to convert theses files to a AVI codec readable...

ED.AVI :
Message written :

Code:

LAV Splitter Source (internal)::Video

Media Type 0:
--------------------------
Video: ARBC 550x272 24fps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {43425241-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 0
bTemporalCompression: 1
lSampleSize: 1
cbFormat: 1112

VIDEOINFOHEADER:
rcSource: (0,0)-(550,272)
rcTarget: (0,0)-(550,272)
dwBitRate: 0
dwBitErrorRate: 0
AvgTimePerFrame: 416670

BITMAPINFOHEADER:
biSize: 1064
biWidth: 550
biHeight: 272
biPlanes: 1
biBitCount: 8
biCompression: ARBC
biSizeImage: 150144
biXPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biClrUsed: 0
biClrImportant: 0

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LOBBY1.AVI :

Code:

LAV Splitter Source (internal)::Video

Media Type 0:
--------------------------
Video: ARBC 550x389 2fps 71kbps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {43425241-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 0
bTemporalCompression: 1
lSampleSize: 1
cbFormat: 1112

VIDEOINFOHEADER:
rcSource: (0,0)-(550,389)
rcTarget: (0,0)-(550,389)
dwBitRate: 71618
dwBitErrorRate: 0
AvgTimePerFrame: 5000000

BITMAPINFOHEADER:
biSize: 1064
biWidth: 550
biHeight: 389
biPlanes: 1
biBitCount: 8
biCompression: ARBC
biSizeImage: 214728
biXPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biClrUsed: 0
biClrImportant: 0

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Can you upload one of those files for me? Then I can have a deeper look at it.

Thanks for your reply, all you need is here (AVI files and DLL/DRV taken from Windows 95)
The ARBC Codec seems to be arbc.drv file.

http://www.lesbonstutos.com/tgames/Windows/

Thanks for your help !
Best Regards

You may be able to play that game with DosBox:
http://www.dosbox.com

As for playing the videos directly, there is no hope for that, as that codec doesn't work on modern Windows, and that video format is also not supported by FFmpeg.

I have found a way to read them with Media Player Classic from Windows 95 on a VM.
Now all videos are converted with VirtualDub !
Problem solved !

Great!