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I have some .Mov files I can't play properly. There is audio, but no video
Why? Can I solve this?

MOV is a container. What's the formats inside the container?

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Here's the info:

stream 0
Codec: jpeg
Language:
Type: Video
Resolution: 640x480
Frame Rate: 30.000000

stream 1
Codec: araw
Language:
Type: Audio
Channels: 1
Sample rate: 7875 Hz
Bits per sample:8
Bitrate: 63 kb/s

It's that motion JPEG stuff, use 0.8.4 version of VLC to play it.

VLC 0.8.5 plays this kind of file here as well.

There have been quite a few people here that say 8.5 doesn't work for them with mjpeg where 8.4 or 8.4a does. There are also other bugs that have been introduced in streaming, playing DVDs and the skins 2 interface.

Perhaps it's time to consider paying more attention to the functionality before moving ahead with new features. It's always nice to improve the player but if the over all preformance of various plugins suffers are people going to keep using it?

VLC 0.8.5 plays this kind of file here as well.

not for me definately...I have VLC 0.8.5 and whatever I try I can't see any video in this kind of .mov file (they came from a digital camera I have). I think I'll go back to the previous version 'cos this one doesn't just seem mature enough.

VLC 0.8.5 plays this kind of file here as well.

Version 0.8.5 is definately not playing MJPEG based MOV files on my computer while VLC v0.8.4a is playing the same file without any problem on the same computer.

This has already been reported MANY times from MANY different users.
Some examples:
viewtopic.php?t=20597
viewtopic.php?t=22925
viewtopic.php?t=23689

And there are many more threads about this issue.

Can you try a nightly build and says if this problem is still happening ?

where can I find those nigthly builds?

video doesn't show up
tested with vlc-0.8.6-svn-20060803-1310

strange... 0.8.5 under windows only plays the sound of the file, while 0.8.5 under linux shows the video quiet fine....

Yep, problem seems to be Windows only.
Maybe that SDL problem?

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

work for me but i think that there is a real bug inside VLC

i order to play all my *.mov file

i have put this line into regedit :

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VLC.mov\shell\Play\command]

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --one-instance-when-started-from-file "%1" :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=1024,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=display}

now when double clic on a mov sequence (i have only *.mov from my digital camera) it play very well !!


thanks to you guy !

Yep, problem seems to be Windows only.

Also happens on Mac OS X (tried with 0.85 as well as trunk-20060902).

Hello,

i have Problems too viewing '.MOV'-files from my
Casio-digicam on VLC 0.85 and several nightly-builds of VLC 0.86
on my w98se(en)-system. In VLC 0.84a it works fine !

It seems to be only a windows-only-problem.
(i know, windows itself _is_ a problem)

It will be nice, this Problem could be fixed in the next Version.

thanks
martin

Hi mates !

i'm new and from Paris, France

using a mac with final cut pro and trying to play .mov on VLC

why all these problems ?

isn't it easy tu put a PAL 720/576 /48000 Khz codec in this thing ?

is quicktime a really awful system ?


thanks for help me to think that someone care about that

Hi all, same problem here with Windows XP fully updated

I tried to play an MP4 on my VLC and got a black screen...no image whatsoever but I had audio...weird