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Flip4mac WMV/QT file yo play on PC?
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I hope someone can help
I have a downloaded video file that was originally played on the Website in QT,via the free Flip4mac QT plugin. I need to be able to play this video on a PC*.
The file that was created, isn't a WMV, just played via the QT player. because if I add .WMV it and open it in WinMedia Player (on the PC) it just chokes. QT on the PC wont touch it ether, as it says that is a missing plugin (and obvously there isn't a PC equivelent of Flip4Mac).
This is a one off, so it's not really worthwile paying for the full Flip4Mac licence, which allows exporting from QT, is there anyother way of ether plaing this file on a PC or extracting the WMV bit out of the hybrid file QT/Flip4Mac has created?
* It's of a wedding a frend of mine was at. As it was streamed WMP on the PC wont let you 'save' the stream, and it was only 'live' for a limited time.
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Last edited by Mediaman_12; Jun 29, 2007 at 07:10 PM.
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The only way I know is re-encoding in another format (DivX for example)! You will lose a bit of quality but not much!
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Can you get it from the website again? This time use the "save as source" option instead of "save as QT Movie". That should get you a standard WMV file.
if not...
Can you play it in VLC? VLC can re-encode it to just about anything you want (but only if it can play it in the first place of course).
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You can take the dude out of So Cal, but you can't take the dude outta the dude, dude!
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Is there anything like Snapz Pro under Windows?, if so you could capture the whole video and then export it with QT.
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Originally Posted by badidea 
The only way I know is re-encoding in another format (DivX for example)! You will lose a bit of quality but not much!
Unfortunately, 're-encoding' is one of the 'pay' features in Flip4mac, if you export from the QT player, you get a 'Encoded by Flip4Mac' message burned across the centere of the frame.
Thanks for the Idea of a screen cap of the file playing. I will try and do it on the Mac though, wonder if Snaps Pro have a trial (goes and looks).
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I'm not sure if Perian supports WMV, but it works for most codecs so that i can view those files in QT. I use VLC for anything else. VLC should work.
Edit: Wow, I misread that. Try iSquint to encode it into an MP4, which should be viewable on Windows. Or buy VisualHub for other formats. I find it to be worth the cost.
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