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Importing video .mpg problems...
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Hi guys,
I have a 400 MB video file .mpg (quicktime) that I can not open using quicktime. Instead, I'm using VLC which works great.
The problem is that I want to use it for creating a movie with iMovie. As shown bellow, I can not import the file.
"The file could not be imported: The file Cenutrio/Users/carlosechavarrierasun/Movies/tornado.mov can’t be imported; QuickTime couldn’t parse it (-2048)."
Do you have any ideas to make quicktime or iMovie able to handle it?
If not, do you know how VLC may work for copy-paste, save it in another format, or any other solution you may have.
Thanks a lot.
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Originally posted by cenutrio:
... I have a 400 MB video file .mpg (quicktime) ... Cenutrio/Users/carlosechavarrierasun/Movies/tornado.mov ...
is it mov or is it mpg? if it's named wrong, QuickTime will give up but VLC won't. Find out what it really is. ffmpeg might tell you if nothing else will. also see here: http://nasorscher.home.comcast.net/movieFAQ
(Last edited by Uncle Skeleton; Jan 23, 2004 at 02:13 PM.
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OK, the original was called "tornado.mpg" and did not play in quicktime, but did in VLC. I changed the name to tornado.mov" just to check (with identical results.)
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you can keep trying things randomly (probably avi or asf), but I would look in HexEdit and find out for sure (see the link)
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When the file is open in VLC, press Command-I to see the file info, you might get some info about the format from there.
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Originally posted by cenutrio:
Hi guys,
I have a 400 MB video file .mpg (quicktime) that I can not open using quicktime. Instead, I'm using VLC which works great.
Just as a note, Quicktime will open MPEG-1 but not MPEG-2 (at least not without at $30 plugin). VLC will open MPEG-2, so that may be the problem (it's one I run into every so often). Ironically, the only way I know of to convert the file to a format friendly to the free version of quicktime (without quality loss) would be to get the MPEG 2 plugin...at which point you would no longer need it. :-)
Anybody else have ideas for converting MPEG-2 to another high quality QT format?
-grover
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That may explain it, thanks Grover!
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Originally posted by grovberg:
Anybody else have ideas for converting MPEG-2 to another high quality QT format?
-grover
Well, there's the free DiVA video converter that can convert MPEG-2 video to whatever Quicktime codec you have installed. Use it with the 3ivx codec for miracles 
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Funny,
I stopped by to post that I successfully used DiVA to convert the movie to a more friendly quicktime format when Jacke already had posted such solution.
It is incredible how accessible, helpful, and friendly the Mac community is.
Another reason why people should seriously consider the Mac platform.
Again, thanks a lot to Grover to put me in the right track and to Jacke for his suggestion (and to everybody else).
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