[MPlayer-users] QT/MOV format supported only partially?

[SMuelas]

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 05:47, Andrew Worsley wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>   Hi I'm trying to play a quick time trailer.
> 
>   Problem line I suspect is:
> 
>       Can't find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33515653 !
> 
>   I get the following output - I presume this is because the QT/MOV
> format is not supported? The home page lists QT/MOV format as supported as of
> version 0.60 but the documentation notes appear to indicate that common codec
> (SORENSEN) is not supported.
> 
>   Is this right? Is there a way to play my trailer?
> 
I'm afraid, the answer is NO. As I've had the same problem with many
short *.mov files that I needed to work with, I have solved the problem
with Gates's windows using the tool "RadTools" that is free to download.
It converts from *.mov to *.avi without any apparent lose in quality.
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