Is Apple DVCPro HD codec supported by VLC for Windows?

[Thomas DeCuir]

Thanks in advance.

Tried Google, Apple Forums, searching these forums, to no avail.
Perhaps you can help me- a cameraman who is doesn't get into the guts of a computer often. Please excuse my superficial knowledge.

Situation:
I have 50+ GB of video footage that has been transcoded via Final Cut Pro 5.0.4 using Final Cut's DVCPro HD codec (dvhp?) They are "Final Cup Pro Movie" files, with a .mov suffix.
(Incidentally, it originated as .mxf files- shot with the new Panasonic HVX200 camera in 720/30PNative—not that it necessarily matters with regards to this question... I am able to view these files using Quicktime on my Mac.)

Problem:
I need to be able to view these .mov files. Quicktime doesn't seem to support the DVCPro HD codec on the Windows platform (unless someone knows something I don't—Pro version?) so after Google brought me to VideoLAN, I gave it a try on my wife's PC, a HP Pavilion laptop running Windows XP with the latest Quicktime Player updates, and VLC media player installed. Neither Quicktime nor VLC works yet. In Quicktime, I get a white screen in the viewer, in VLC—no viewer window at all. Both show audio of the correct clip length, and it plays, albeit silently.
My guess is that VLC doesn't support the DVCPro HD codec that is within the .mov container. I hope I'm wrong.

Questions:

1. Does VLC media player support playback of Apple's DVCPro HD encoded .mov files?

2. If not, are there ANY playback support of this codec for the Windows platform that anyone knows about?

Again, thank you for your help. Good karma is on it's way to you![/i]

[DJ]

I saw your post this morning and searching for something else I ran across this to night.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Pan ... ercomments

I don't think it is exactly what you are looking for but it does appear that it is how it's done on a PC. Panasonic seems to have created their own thing rather than adhere to standards. Wouldn't be the first time a manufacture has done this.

[The DJ]

1: No, no opensource software seems to spport DVCPro HD yet, but I believe someone is working on it, so perhaps soon.

2: I doubt Panasonic truly deviates from these standards much. They created them in the first place (with others of course). The post you refer to DJ is on a DVCPro DV decoder module for windows. Of course that is something totally different.

the truth is that this is just very new technology which is barely supported yet in the field by anything else then Apple's Video software tools.