Hubert_CumberdaleSILVER Member [psylocibin fingerbobe]. 479 posts Location: London, United Kingdom
Posted: I've got a bunch of video clips in Quicktime .mov format.
Does anyone know a utility/converter for turning them into MPEG format??
Thanks in advance for any info
flidBRONZE Member Carpal \'Tunnel 3,136 posts Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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vanizeSILVER Member Carpal \'Tunnel 3,899 posts Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted: you can use quicktime pro to get them into avi or mpeg-4
of course that means you have to get quicktime pro...
somehow...
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Hubert_CumberdaleSILVER Member [psylocibin fingerbobe]. 479 posts Location: London, United Kingdom
Posted: Thanks you two.
I found out today that you can get away with simply renaming .mov to .mpg and most players will play it (coz the Mpeg-4 is based on the quicktime format anyway)
Not tried it yet though.
flidBRONZE Member Carpal \'Tunnel 3,136 posts Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Posted: What does that gain you?
You can rename a jpg as a gif and it'll still load in MSIE/XP, but it doesn't mean you've changed the file's structure, which surely is the point of the exercise (i assume you're doing this for compatibility with multiple operating systems/to change the compression/change the size etc)?
The only way you could gain really by changing the file extension is to fool poorly written parsing code on websites (see my avatar).
Hubert_CumberdaleSILVER Member [psylocibin fingerbobe]. 479 posts Location: London, United Kingdom
Posted: I think I'm going to have one of my headaches
Bender_the_OffenderGOLD Member still can't believe it's not butter 6,978 posts Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posted: the file still works cus the viewing application reads the file header to identify file type, not just the file extension.
virtualdub, TMPEnc, Premiere and Half-Life 2 are good examples of video format converters.
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