.MOV file from digital camera. sound, no video

[SideshowMel]

I have .MOV files that I copied from my digital camera. Since I despise QuickTime, I would like to play them in VLC, but only the audio is playing. I searched through the forum here, and while I didn't exactly find a solution to the problem, I know that to solve it, somebody out there needs the "Advanced Info" by pressing CTRL+i then going to advanced tab. I took a screenshot of that info and posted it here:

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/3471/vlcinfotu9.jpg

Please help me get the video working on these particular .MOV files.

VLC 0.8.5
WinXP Pro SP2

Thanks.

[SideshowMel]

I read this on another post:

on Windows
open .mov file with vlc 0.8.5
Check ‘Stream Output’
select output file name with .mp4 extension
b. Check MP4 for Encapsulation Method
c. Check Video Codec, choose mp4v in drop-down, choose Bitrate 1024, Scale 1*

my files were from my digital camera (jpeg codec)

Click ‘OK’

now VLC can play it Smile

and I don't really understand exactly what these instructions mean. Am I supposed to go into the Preferences? because those options do not appear in the prefs, even when I check "Advanced options". I'm not an idiot, I swear. I just don't know very much about video encoding...

[Tappen]

Those instructions re-encode the video into another file with a different video codec which is more widely supported than MJPEG, leaving the audio stream alone. If it works, great. MJPEG is stinky anyway, and is only used by cameras because they don't have much processing power to encode and also lets you pull any frame out of the video easily.

[SideshowMel]

Thanks, but I still don't actually understand how to follow those instructions, let alone whether it will help or not. Would you perhaps be able to clarify on those instructions I posted? Thanks for the info, too, it's good to know I can easily pull a frame if I wanted.

[SideshowMel]

So, I'm guessing that the "jpeg" under the Codec section in the Advanced tab I posted is the same as MJPEG?

[SideshowMel]

Nevermind, I understand those instructions now. I was looking in the preferences, when all I needed to do was look at the individual prefs for that particular media file. Thanks, I'll just do that for all of my .mov files, I don't have very many.

[The DJ]

Unfortunately there are quite a few of these MJPEG variants. this can be quite a problem