Converting video to .mov

Can Quicktime Pro convert video from one format to .mov format? I have a few mpeg files that I would like to put up on our webpage, but our provider only supports Quicktime Streaming. Therefore I'm guessing that the files would have to be in .mov format.
If this is possible, then while converting, can you change the viewer size. Say from 800x600 to 320x480 or something along those lines?
Any help would be greatly apreciated! Thanks in advance!

For the most part if QT Player Pro can display a movie, video or what ever you want to call it, it can convert it to other formats. There are a couple of exceptions. For muxed mpegs (mpeg-1 and mpeg-2, but not mpeg-4) QT cannot export the sound from the file although it will export the video.
There is a workaround for that limitation. Windows users can use this freeware to convert meg-1 files to uncompressed avi, from which QT will export both sound and video. Open the mpeg-1 in VDub and use Save as Avi in the File menu to save it as uncompressed avi. The only catch there is that uncompressed avi files are very large so you may have to do the conversion in small segments
VirtualDub
One other exception is that the creator of a .mov file can cause a flag to be set that prevents QT from editing or exporting the file to other formats. Those are rather rare, however.

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