Forums > Help! > Video question: Quicktime "mov" files into mpg

Posted: 1st Apr 2005
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Posted: 6th Apr 2005
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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Posted: 8th Apr 2005
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.

Posted: 8th Apr 2005
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).

Posted: 8th Apr 2005
I think I'm going to have one of my headaches

Posted: 8th Apr 2005
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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