From Quicktime to MPEG

[luisr]

I got a digital camera the other day that can shoot videos (small and low quality but anyway). They are stored in Quicktime format. The software CD that came with the camera included a QT player but I would like to be able to convert them to MPG format in case I want to share any video with someone else. It is far more likely that other people will have the ability to play MPG files than QT.

What can I use to convert these videos?

[RJ]

TMPGEnc is a very good MPEG Encoder. It does MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding from any source you have the codec for.

www.tmpgenc.net

RJ

[audiyoda]

The problem is Quicktime's codec isn't resident in your system like other codecs. It's apart of the stream or within the player -- Apple's way of being very protective of their creation.

One of the few products that I'm aware of that will do this is Discreet's Cleaner. But that's a $500 program used by video professionals. Most other products have been squashed by Apple. But I do remember a program called Qt2Mpeg -- did a search on Google and actually found a link that still works: ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/convert/qt2mpeg.zip

Now I also seem to recall that this little guy runs in MS-DOS mode, but I'm not sure.

Good luck.

-Craig

[glc]

Stay tuned - I have a friend who took a 30 second movie with his digicam last summer, the native format is Quick Time. He used *something* to convert it to an AVI which played in Windows Media Player using a DivX codec - and it wound up about 1/4 the filesize too. I'll post back here when I find out what exactly he used.

[glc]

RAD Video Tools

http://www.radgametools.com/down/bink/radtools.exe