can't open a quick-time-format movie, need help

[kommos]

I made a 1.5 ggb. movie with a web cam on my Mac. It registered as a Quick-time movie, but neither Quck Time Player nor Adobe Premier want to open it! Quick Time doesn't "recognise" it. Adobe says it's "of unsupported formate". Don't know what to do. You, pros, please help!

[dap OLD werewolf]

Don't know too much about quicktime and I only use it when absolutely necessary - you might want to try and post on a Mac or Quicktime forum, they should be able to help you more.
Here's a link that might be useful:
http://www.mymac.ws/index.php?sid=c4ea2 ... 78ebe8b39e

[kommos]

Don't know too much about quicktime and I only use it when absolutely necessary - you might want to try and post on a Mac or Quicktime forum, they should be able to help you more.
Here's a link that might be useful:
http://www.mymac.ws/index.php?sid=c4ea2 ... 78ebe8b39e

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, the site you've cited requires registration, etc...
The movie (of an important meeting) I made is (presumably!) in MPEG format, and I can't open it with anything at all - not only with Quick Time! The content is confidential, so I can't take it to a specialist. Please tell me what other applications could I try. Thank you again.
Kommos

[vittijr]

What about VLC player? You can get it free at http://www.videolan.org/ I got to be honest, video is not my thing. But that lil player will play just about any file extension.

[Gemini777]

Have you checked the manufacturer's website for your webcam? Perhaps they have a special application to play movies created on their products. Or if not, maybe they have a support section, you could find out which player they recommend or maybe someone else has had a similar problem and posted a solution there.

[dap OLD werewolf]

Now you said something you never said before: The movie (of an important meeting) I made is (presumably!) in MPEG format, and I can't open it with anything at all

Mpeg isn't a Quicktime format, and there are different mpeg formats. For starters you might want to stick it into gspot and find out if it's mpeg1 or mpeg2:
http://www.rita.LT/video_tools/help/gspot.htm

Second, you might be missing either of the mpeg codecs, although most media players come with the mpeg1 codec. You can try installing them:
http://www.rita.LT/video_tools/mpeg2codec_installer.zip

If it still doesn't play, take a look at the bitrate of your mpg in GSpot - I capture to high bitrate mpeg2 (12000 kbps, which is much higher than dvd quality, which is 8,000 bitrate). Many players like bsplayer, videolan, wmp, etc. can't handle mpeg2 files at such high quality. It's always best to try and play mpegs through players like PowerDVD or WinDVD, or players that were specifically designed to play dvds. Of course I think you said you had a Mac, which I know nothing about

[kommos]

Now you said something you never said before: The movie (of an important meeting) I made is (presumably!) in MPEG format, and I can't open it with anything at all

Mpeg isn't a Quicktime format, and there are different mpeg formats. For starters you might want to stick it into gspot and find out if it's mpeg1 or mpeg2:
http://www.rita.LT/video_tools/help/gspot.htm

Second, you might be missing either of the mpeg codecs, although most media players come with the mpeg1 codec. You can try installing them:
http://www.rita.LT/video_tools/mpeg2codec_installer.zip

If it still doesn't play, take a look at the bitrate of your mpg in GSpot - I capture to high bitrate mpeg2 (12000 kbps, which is much higher than dvd quality, which is 8,000 bitrate). Many players like bsplayer, videolan, wmp, etc. can't handle mpeg2 files at such high quality. It's always best to try and play mpegs through players like PowerDVD or WinDVD, or players that were specifically designed to play dvds. Of course I think you said you had a Mac, which I know nothing about

Thanks, as always, for the advice.
I downloaded the GSpot folder on Desktop; presumably you just drag the movie file onto GSpot exec file, it opens and tells you what codec you need and all that. The trouble is that when I drag the file as suggested it just sits on top and nothing happens. I don't seem to be able to opehn either the GSpot exec or GSpot25 dat. with anything else to make it work. What to do? Maybe what they say is true and G-Spot doesn't really exist?
Kommos

[Vladd44]

open gspot. (double click the icon)

Drag and drop the video file onto the opened program, not the shortcut.

[kommos]

Hah!
That's the whole problem: it doesn't open!

[Vladd44]

it doesn't open!

define it.

[dap OLD werewolf]

I assume you know how to run gspot, but I'll go through it. Gspot is not an installer, in other words when you run it for the first time it will not create a folder in your program files, it will run from wherever you put it, and if you move GSpot from wherever you downloaded it and unzipped it to, any shortcut you made on your desktop will not work anymore. So after you unzip GSpot (I am assuming it was a zip you downloaded) into any folder, you open it by double clicking on gspot.exe, or make a shortcut from gspot.exe to your desktop and open it from there. Then click on File - Open to browse to the file you want to check.

And I can assure you, GSpot does exist.

[kommos]

Well, okay, p'haps it exists... but it won't work for me, no matter what I do. When I download it, it creates a folder on Desktop. There is indeed GSpot exec. document. When I click on it, Stuflit Expander icon comes on, jumps up and down for a bit and disappears. That's all that happens. I tried to open it with everything under the sun: no effect. So, exist it as it may, so far id doesn't want to work for me.

[dap OLD werewolf]

I don't know why it creates a shortcut to the desktop, but GSpot is usually a zip or a rar file, so you need to go to the folder you downloaded it to and extract the file first before you can run it.

Try it from another site, sometimes if a server is busy with traffic there can be corruptions:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=6&s=6

Actually, now that I remember your initial post you're using a Mac aren't you? So to be honest I have no idea if you can even extract zip files, or even if gspot will work. I think you need to find a forum that deals with Mac comps, because I'm totally in the dark when it comes to Macs.