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Date:	Mon, 4 Apr 2005 19:31:47 PDT7
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: .mov software ?

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--- Peter Skye wrote:

> Is the sound problem due to WarpVision or due to the
> .mov format? Is
> there a utility that can convert the .mov to a
> different format which a
> different OS/2 player can handle?

I must state the caveat with this answer that I have
not visited the WV message forum for at least a couple
of months now, so I'm not up on any recent
developments. In response to a question sometime last
year, one of the principal WV developers said that
most of the more recent Quicktime files (professional
grade, such as movide clips) happen to be based on
Sorenson 3 (or was it Sorenson 5) video codec, BUT,
they have some *other* AUDIO codec embedded inside for
the sound, and that one is proprietary. WV can handle
the video (as I showed in the demo), but the
developers had no way to reverse engineer the other
codec(s) handling the sound. Not without vastly
greater resources at their disposal.

My demo briefly discussed a trialware (Win) conversion
program, one of several that are out there. Such
programs typically go FROM a certain limited set of
supported formats TO a certain other limited set of
formats. Your best chance in this case, I'm afraid,
would be the Pro version of Apple Quicktime Player
(about $30. for the Win version), which can convert
.MOV files into MPEG4 and a few other formats.
Perhaps one of those end result formats could be
played by WV, in the clips entirety. I don't know if
the sound is sure to get converted also, but hopefully
it would.

Jordan

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