Quicktime movie won't play on WinXP

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neuby

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I created a .mov file on my mac using quicktime export from imovie. It plays fine on the mac. Transferred it to my PC (winXP home), and it won't play there. Neither Windows Media Player, nor the quicktime Windows client can open it - both claiming it is not a file that quicktime supports!

When I copy THAT copy back from the pc to the Mac - it runs fine. Ie, it is in no way corrupted by being on the Winbox, but simply won't play there!

AHHHh


(have updated the Windows QT client to the latest version of course)

Suggestions?
 
mdnky said:
What were the settings you used to export said movie?
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Hmm - not sure, I did it about a month ago. I had it set to export as Quicktime, with full DV settings, I believe.

How do I tell what codec each version of quicktime has?
 
Try the expert settings option, then choose "Movie to Quicktime Movie" or "Movie to MPEG-4" and see if those work on the Win box.
 
The DV format should work, i made a presentation for a client that used that codec on XP. And generally QuickTime will tell you to update if it sees you used a different codec that isn't installed. Need the specifics of that codec, because there was a bad DV NON-Apple codec that came with some application, you never said if you were on Mac OS X or 9, and this happened to me on 9, and i had to manually delete that extention.
 
Urbansory said:
The DV format should work, i made a presentation for a client that used that codec on XP. And generally QuickTime will tell you to update if it sees you used a different codec that isn't installed. Need the specifics of that codec, because there was a bad DV NON-Apple codec that came with some application, you never said if you were on Mac OS X or 9, and this happened to me on 9, and i had to manually delete that extention.
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I agree it SHOULD work - but it doesn't. I have since upgraded to iLife 04 - should I re-export the file do you think?
 
Well, I have since upgraded iLife to the 04 version, and I re-exported the file, and it works now!

Thanks so much to the group for all your input on this. Still don't know what happened with the old one, but the new one is full DV quality, and plays in QT on both platforms!!

CHeers
 
I had a similar problem to what you described. But only when I hosted the video on .mac file download page in homepage. Turns out the files were binhexed on the site and it wasn't something that windows winzip (or pkzip...can't remember now) could extract...so it just says quicktime can't play that format. But if you get the right uncompressor for windoze then it works fine.
 
Imported it back into iMovie 04, and re-exported it, and it is now fine. Wierd.

Thanks folks for all your suggestions!!
 
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