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Subject: Re: vic 2.6
To: giordan@fe.usp.br (Marcelo Giordan)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 19:48:37 +0200 (MET DST)
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> hi,
> 
> i'm trying to see some video with vic v2.6, but some error messages are 
> displayed:
> 
> vic: can't allocate color map
> vic: reverting to private color map
> vic: unsupported H.261 format (7)
> 
> could anyone help me ? 

your best bet is to update to vic-2.8 -- in order to do this on a 2.1.X
system (which you are probably using) you also need to update tk4.1 and
tcl7.6 (I think).

You won't regret it. vic 2.8 has much better supports for everything.
	
	Luigi