On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 12:41 PM, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
#2 or 3
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:20:12 -0500, derrick.freeman
<email@hidden> wrote:
What are your video and audio codec settings for the movie your are
trying to open?
I'm not entirely sure. I'm a QuickTime newbie. Where would I find
out?
Unless you've converted it somehow, your Olympus shoots Quicktime
movies, using:
video - PhotoJPEG
audio - uncompressed, 8bit, 8khz mono
This *should* be viewable and playable in virtually any copy of
Quicktime anywhere. I'm also surprised Windows Media can't play this,
as it's basic Quicktime support should allow it to handle PhotoJPEG and
uncompressed audio just fine.
This leads me to believe that the file is, in fact, damaged, as the
error message seemed to indicate.
Are there any other free players that can play .MOV files? Although I
doubt any of them would have better error correcting than QT.
Try VLC on Mac OSX, but if neither Quicktime nor Windows Media can play
it (and both SHOULD be able to play a movie at the spec your camera
creates) then I think the file is damaged. Nevertheless, sometimes
rogue apps like VLC are more forgiving of out-of-spec files.
You may also try GraphicConverter, but I'm fairly sure it uses
Quicktime to
As for does this happen to others - movies don't just break, so
something happened to it, or your playback environment, to break this
specific flavor of movie.
Yeah I'm afraid it might have been corrupted when I copied it from my
main HD to an external disk, but I didn't get any errors IIRC. It
still says it is 25mb, so the information is there, it's just not
accessible, which is frustrating.
Also, are you able to play other Quicktime content, for instance from
Apple's movie trailer site? That would tell us something.
Yup, including other video taken with this camera.
Then I'm even more sure the file itself was somehow either damaged, or
you removed the video track - damage is more likely considering the
error message, but how that happened is a mystery. It's certainly not a
typical Quicktime behavior, so in all likelihood it was somethign
external - bad hardware, an incomplete file copy, bad file encoding
when you transferred it somewhere, or just a corrupted file (bad CD,
bad floppy, whatever).
If you could post it somewhere then one of us could take a look, and
even possibly salvage some (or all) of the visual media, but it'll be
very difficult and time consuming to try to coach you in disassembling
a raw Quicktime file over a mailing list. You might take a crack at it
with Dumpster, at least to see what it says about the file structurally.
-R
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