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Old 11-15-2007   #5 (permalink)
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Re: MOV videofiles (Quicktime)

"osu9400" <osu9400@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Can you change formats to something more cross-platform like AVI? I see
> less and less QT than I used to.
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> "Skynet" <skynet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "John Inzer" <oobie@xxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
>> news:OiAEuJiJIHA.5860@xxxxxx
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>>> BTHOEM wrote:
>>>> Windows Live Photo Gallery imports and plays fine several
>>>> videoformats, like mpg.
>>>> However, my Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ 50 produces videofiles in Quicktime
>>>> format - MOV.
>>>> WLPG does not display these files and will not play them.
>>>>
>>>> Everytime I start WLPG, a dialog box pops up and tells me that it
>>>> needs to install codecs to support RAW and Quicktime files. A button
>>>> says "Download". Clicking download, brings me to Apples Quicktime
>>>> website for download.
>>>> I install Quicktime - however no change. Every time I start WLPG, it
>>>> keeps on directing me to Apples website.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know if support for Quicktime MOV files can be installed with
>>>> Windows Live Photo Gallery under WIndows XP?
>>>>
>>>> Bjørn Tore
>>
>> Similar problem.
>> I've installed QuickTime Alternative, which installs codecs only, and
>> there's no way to see mov files with PG.
>> It seems that PG had been released a little incomplete. There's a lot of
>> missing features...
>

Often these mov files are mjpeg (motion jpeg), not Quicktime,
which can be played with WMP and probably in photogallery as well. Just
change the extension to avi.