hey, just wanted to help here... you got raw video in quicktime, so use the -rawvideo switch this gets me a semi watchable image, you should play with it to get it perfect, have fun :) mplayer ilacetest.mov -rawvideo on:format=yv12:yv12:w=768:h=576 ooh, looks like its interlaced too, or i'm crazy,try add -vf lavcdeint