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Quicktime always wants to convert, help!
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Hi!
My quicktime always used to be good, but I'm not sure what I did, except that now, about 50% of movies (usually from PC's) wont play. It's not that file is bad or anything, because the shareware contextual menu plugin plays them fine, just nothing else (except premier).
I thought that since they are from PC's, the file type and creator might need to be set, but that does nothing. I double click the files and they bring up a dialog converting them from "movie to sound" it says. Then I can play the sound but no visuals.
If i go into QT player, and go to "open" and open it, it will open, but is a white screen with no sound!
Please please please help!
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Alicante (Spain)
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Can you tell which format that movies are? In QT (at least in QT Pro) cmd-J gives information about the file, see here the Video Track Format. This has little to do with either the file name ending (i.e. .avi, .mpg) nor the file type/creator.
It depends on that information, what kind of codec you have to have installed.
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Murphy's Second Corollary:
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Going to File>Open in QuickTime - as you were - is the right thing to do. The fact that you're getting a white screen and no sound would suggest you're missing the correct codec.
Maybe these are DivX movies? - which you can play with a codec from here with the aid of Windows Media Player 6.3 only.
If you need help finding WMP 6.3 let me know.
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<Jacke [Remote]>
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I've got WMP 6.3 on my iDisk. http://homepage.mac.com/jacob_aberg.
I'm also going to upload another Windows Video codec there since I can't find it anywhere else and I know that some AVI movies need it.
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Join Date: Feb 1999
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Originally posted by booboo:
<STRONG>Going to File>Open in QuickTime - as you were - is the right thing to do. The fact that you're getting a white screen and no sound would suggest you're missing the correct codec.
Maybe these are DivX movies? - which you can play with a codec from here with the aid of Windows Media Player 6.3 only.
If you need help finding WMP 6.3 let me know.</STRONG>
This also can happen if you're missing the Indeo Video 4 and 5 codecs. I remember I had to download them myself back when I was using Quicktime 4. They're a free download from Apple; just do a search in their software updates or tech info library. I think Quicktime 5 installs both, though, so depending which version you have, this may or may not be an issue. Otherwise it's probably the DivX codec mentioned above.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
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See, I thought that it was a codec thing too, becuase I've had probs with avi's before like this
But the thing is, the Contextual Plugin played this fine - and all it does is call on the QT extension, as does premier.
I did a cmd-J, and it has no video track according to it!
..hang on a minute, it has a flash track...maybe this it it? the framerate is damn slow, but that's just flash for mac isn't it?
I'm even more confused!
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