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Title: Quicktime movie or not?
Post by: Raven on October 12, 2011, 11:11:16 PM

I helped an out of town guest today present a Power point and QT movie. He came with both files on a Flash Drive. The files were created on a Windows PC.
I used my G4 iBook 10.4.11. I could open and display the Ppt. But not the movie. It kept giving me a message that it's not a Quicktime movie. We were scrambling in front of the audience! I tried QT.app and DVD Player and Media Player hoping something would run it... Zippo!

Finally someone brought a Acer laptop and it played the movie immediately.

When I first opened the guest's Flash Drive and downloaded it, it showed 2 Folders  - an Audio and Video one. What we thought was the QT file was titled - VTS_01_1.VOB. 231 mb in size. All the other files in the Folder were much smaller and didn't work for me.

I have to do this again tomorrow. Any way that I can open this Quicktime movie on my iBook?

Title: Quicktime movie or not?
Post by: Highmac on October 13, 2011, 01:04:48 AM

If you've got the free MPEG Streamclip on your Mac, you could try opening it in that and exporting as an MPEG. I haven't found much that it won't open. Good luck.

Title: Quicktime movie or not?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on October 13, 2011, 09:51:12 AM

Does the "QuickTime" file actually have ".mov" as it's suffix? As far as I know, PPT on Windows can't use QuickTime files since MS doesn't provide a means of playing QuickTime movies in its OS. It sounds, from your description, that it is actually two files from a DVD, they usually have both a Video_TS folder and an Audio_TS folder (even though modern DVD players don't need the Audio_TS folder which is usually empty, anyway). I  other words it doesn't sound like a real QuickTime file.

Title: Quicktime movie or not?
Post by: tacit on October 13, 2011, 03:13:59 PM

QUOTE(Raven @ Oct 13 2011, 04:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I helped an out of town guest today present a Power point and QT movie. He came with both files on a Flash Drive. The files were created on a Windows PC.
I used my G4 iBook 10.4.11. I could open and display the Ppt. But not the movie. It kept giving me a message that it's not a Quicktime movie. We were scrambling in front of the audience! I tried QT.app and DVD Player and Media Player hoping something would run it... Zippo!

Finally someone brought a Acer laptop and it played the movie immediately.

When I first opened the guest's Flash Drive and downloaded it, it showed 2 Folders  - an Audio and Video one. What we thought was the QT file was titled - VTS_01_1.VOB. 231 mb in size. All the other files in the Folder were much smaller and didn't work for me.

I have to do this again tomorrow. Any way that I can open this Quicktime movie on my iBook?

A .vob file is not a QuickTime movie. It's a "video object"--a movie copied straight off a DVD. You need DVD playing software, such as VLC, to play it.