[MacDV] Quicktime Video encoded with h.264 won't play on QT 7.4 on iMac

[Gordon Alley]

Just letting you know that it worked fine on my two Macs:MacBook (late
2006), 3GB RAM, OS X 10.5.2, QuickTime 7.4.1
iMac G4 800, 1GB RAM, OS X 10.4.11, QuickTime 7.4.1

-Gordon

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Wilhelm Wanders <kaskudoo at gmx.de> wrote:

> Alright, here is the story:
>
> I encoded videos from our Mexico trip with QT 7.2 on my iMac G5 (OSX
> 10.4.10). The video was captured and cut in iMovieHD and then
> exported there with expert option to h.264, 320*240, 12fps, 32K audio.
>
> I can play the resulting video just fine on my Mac and also on
> several of my PC's with anywhere from Windows 2000 to Windows XP SP2.
> All with various QT versions (no older than 7 though).
>
> However, my parents in Germany, which just bought an iMac (Intel) a
> year ago cannot play the videos. They upgraded their OS to 10.4.11
> and installed QT 7.4 and still were not able to play it. In the
> browser (I had embedded it in a website) they couldn't see it - just
> the famous "?" .... in Safari and Firefox).
> I had specifically chosen h.264 to encode, since I thought it was a
> substantial codec and any QT should be able to play it .....
> especially on a Mac.
>
> Well, eventually I told them to install the 3ivx codec (because I
> thought it might help in decoding) and voila, now they can see it.
>
> Still, I found it odd that they had problems viewing it .... maybe
> one of you can help? I uploaded one of the videos here:
> http://www.chocolateriewanders.com/file_junction/mexico/vulkan.mov
>
> Thank you for reading ....
>
> Wilhelm
>
> PS. I did also encode videos straight from QT with the above
> mentioned settings (and yes, I can view them on four different
> computers here at home)
>

-- 
Gordon B. Alley
http://www.gordonalley.com
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