[jonny05]

Anyone know if it's possible to convert an mpeg encoded with MS MPEG-4 into a format readable by Quicktime?

What I'm basically asking is :

Are there any apps (PC only, obviously) to convert MPEG-4 to DivX, Quicktime, MPEG-1, or anything else?

Thanks in advance...

Have you tried the divx component for MacOS X, divx.jamby.net ?
This can decode MS MPEG-4 v3 streams (avi). It also includes a
avi2mov converter which makes the problem with avi-files go away !
(It also makes the files streamable, avi isn´t)

I don´t know if there´s a version for MacOS 9, but there you can
use the DivXPlayer-WMP thing ...

Hope that you can find a way to play the movies ! I think the Jamby
solution works OK, even if it´s not Altivec enhanced. No encoding support,
(ie encode to DivX, but you can convert to other format from DivX)
(I´m using a pbg4-550/256/20/DVD)

[jonny05]

Hmm. The file is in MPEG format, not AVI, so the DivX/WMP for OS 9 didn't work, and I don't have OS X, so it'll have to wait for now.

Thanks for the help!

[jonny05]

Did it!

Used Windows Media Encoder for PC (free) to convert to Windows Media v7, then TMPGEnc (also freeware, I think) to convert to MPEG.

It took a little messing around with the settings, but the results are pretty good!