On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:13:24 -0500
"Clay Fandre" <cfandre at fandre.com> wrote:

> Anyone know of any utils that will convert a quicktime to mpeg or avi?
My digital camera creates pretty cool movies but they are saved in mov.

Any idea which CODEC that camera uses?

.mov specifies that the file is Quicktime format, but Quicktime is
actually just a wrapper, and any one of a number of CODECs could have been
used to encode the content. The most popular Quicktime CODEC on the net
(Sorenson) is closed-source and proprietary, and to date, Sorenson does
not offer CODEC support for linux. If your camera uses a codec other than
Sorenson, you might have some hope for now...

There is a Quicktime4Linux project at
http://heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 which explains in more detail the
issues involved. There is also a less-mature but more promising project at
http://openquicktime.sourceforge.net/.



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