OT: Video formats

[Scott Mellott]

I'll second the use of mplayer.  Its a very nice multimedia player.

I've done some work writing tools to convert SGI movies to and from Quicktime. 
The use of MJPEG is fairly common where Quicktime is just the wrapper.  The 
OpenQuickTime project has some nice tools to break down movies into individual 
images.  You can then take those images to build an mpeg movie or what ever 
format you want.

Scott

ken at flyingtoasters.net wrote:
> .mov can usually be seen with at least one of the open tools.  Granted,
> the latest and greatest Quicktime codecs are a pain, but I think even
> they are available somewhere.  Feel free to send me your shortest .mov,
> and I'll take a stab at it.  Have you tried vlc and mplayer?
> 
> -Ken
> 
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>Sorry for the OT post. Anyway, on to the off-topic at hand:
>>
>>My digital camera does 1 minute movie clips. However, it writes them as
>>.MOV files, which I can only seem to view with Quicktime (even though
>>the manual says that they are "Motion JPEG" files). Does anyone know how
>>I can convert these files to mpeg, or another more useable format?
>>Eventually I plan on converting them into some streaming format for use
>>on the web... Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Kenny
>>
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