Quicktime and flv files

I have just bought quicktime pro because research suggested it would open a flv file and convert it. Having gone through a painful process of having to redownload and reinstall various add ons it is still not working only opening the first few seconds of the file. Can anyone suggest a solution?

Quicktime X is a great little piece of software. However, Quicktime X is very finicky on which codec/file format it can decode/play.
Luckily, there are DOZENS of alternative video/media players and extensions available for the Mac. Some of them are even FREE. Some of the better FREE ones include...
PERIAN (quicktime extension)
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22923/perian
QUICKTIME 7.6.6
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL923
VLC Media Player
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/5758/vlc-media-player
NICEPLAYER
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15136/niceplayer
... And if none of those work, there is a possibility that, that video file may be corrupted.

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If the program, 'Media Player Classic' can play .swf and .flv files, the surely Firefox programmers can do for those what was done for .pdf files. PLEASE!

hello, mozilla is indeed working on it, but this is not an easy task...
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OK, I finally got my QuickTime Pro moved to my new laptop But...
It't won't load FLV files...
Questions:
1 - Searched & found about Perian but I think it only works on Mac's... true?
2 - How can i get Quick Time Pro to work with FLV and other video formats on my PC? I want to use it to convert various formats.
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If you put the page, the .flv file, the .swf files, and the Scripts folder online, we should be able to help. Otherwise, all we can do is make wild guesses as to what you've done.
BTW, the most common mistake is forgetting to upload the Scripts folder if this is what I think it is.
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Keep-On-Learnin' :-)
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CC and FLV files

Hi -
Help please - I have tried a bunch pf workarounds and nothing
seems to work.....I am doing a soft skill course in captiavte. I am
importing flv files that contain avatars, video and audio. Well,
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quote:
I am obviously having a problem with adding cc. Any
workarounds?
Nope, not really. All you can do is approximate it,
and it may be difficult to get timing right (or not).
The first issue you will face is that Captivate "grays out"
the CC button if there is no audio on the slide. The workaround for
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Hello,
I have an flv file and the same flv file in an swf file. Both
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whether you import an flv file or an swf file, to keep your file
size small. Is this correct ?
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> I have an flv file and the same flv file in an swf file.
Both files are
> the
> same size.
That's just a coincidence.
There is different baggage / overheads with FLV vs SWF. So
you will usually
get some differences .. sometimes SWF smaller, other times
FLV. However,
the actual video payload is the same in both, and the audio
is similar too,
and they are the bulk of the file size. So there shouldn't be
a huge
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RogerD wrote:
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Some of my .MOV and .FLV files are missing audio

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The weird thing is that the audio once worked, so something in my settings have changed.
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Quicktime and mono files...

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Where do I go to get a plug-in for Quicktime to let me play .avi movie files? I went to the site where it says it might be, but I don't see anything for .avi files. Thanks for any help.
PS. I downloaded VLC, but everytime I right click the .avi file, go to open with, then pick VLC, it starts to open then closes.

Yes, that does work, but I'm viewing avi files over
the network, so it's hard to open VLC, then click
open file and go over the network to get the file.
There's got to be an easier way.
In VLC (because this'll come up again) just choose 'open Network' and supply the URL for the stream/resource (in some case you may have to dig into the source of the web page - or the one the link actually directs you to to find something that starts mms:// or RTSP: or similar).
This is particularly handy because in VLC - as in mplayer/ffmpegx and others) you can pipe the output to a file on disk in many cases (I hate streams. I like files.
A helpful link - and good forum: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=49539#49539
-FWIW.
best wishes.

HT3775 Quicktime and AVI Files

Quicktime says it supports AVI videos, but when I try to play mine it says I need to download a codec?

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http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
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Quicktime and VOB files

I am trying to export a vob file (legal, it's my production) as a quicktime so that I can edit in FCP. My problem is that I can only play back the first 19 seconds of my 28 minutes of media when opened in quicktime. I recently downloaded OpenShiiva and was able to encode an Xvid, but even as a QT movie it will not import into FC. Any ideas?

Well, a search here would find lots of ideas.
1. Buy Apple MPEG-2 component for QT
2. Use (free) MPEG Streamclip to open VOBs, correct timecode errors.
3. With Streamclip, Export to DV (or any QT format but DV makes sense for editing)
4. Use in FC or iMovie.
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Also note had you been able to export more than 19 seconds you woudl have lost all the audio.

Quicktime and tiff files

I use a windows 7 laptop. In the course of my week I view many tiff files. I have the default program for tiff set as windows photo viewer. Nonetheless, Quicktime always comes up. I wouldn't mind, but I cannot view all pages, and sometimes nothing shows. So each week I have to remove Quicktime in order to view my tiff files in Windows Photo Viewer. Very, very, frustrating. Any thoughts?

Excellent news, Bulent!
I hope Quicktime does not, later, try to take over again.
Good point ... next time you do a QuickTime update directly from the Website:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
... very near the end of the install, there should be a screen with a "Configure File/MIME types" button. Click the button, go to the MIME types, and make sure that that TIFF image entry is unchecked. That should avoid the problem in future.

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