coverting movie to play on windows

[Unregistered]

Does anyone have a utility that could convert the movie that i've captured so that it could playback on windows?? the file extension is .MQV... never heard of it before... Thanks in Advance

[ojleblanc]

The .MQV format is really MPEG4 and will play, without conversion, in Quick Time 6, which you can get free from Apple's website. You may want to associate the .mqv file exention with Quick Time 6 after you have installed it, but this is not necessary. You can also rename the file from .mqv to .mov (the Quick Time extension), but (again) this is not necessary. Your movie file will play, as is, in Quick Time 6.

-ojleblanc

[rldunn]

I have QT6 and it doesn't recognize the MQV extension on mine. I had to rename it to MOV to play, though I will try registering the MQV as Quicktime instead.

[mashoutposse]

Quicktime 6 opens up MQV files on my two laptops... Have you established an association between MQV and the QT6 application yet?

[rldunn]

Yep, I did that and it worked fine. But I just wanted to point out that it may not play them without the step.

[ojleblanc]

Glad to hear it worked for you. I think if you don't associate .mqv, with QT6 then you cannot simply double-click on the file and have QT6 play it. I seem to recall (I think I recall) that if you go File-Open ... browse and find your file, it will play okay.

[jeffrey]

I found that if I double-clicked on the mqv file, Windows would ask me what program I wanted to use to open it (I suppose I could have also right-clicked on it and selected Open With...). Select QuickTime viewer. QuickTime will pop up a message saying something to the effect that it couldn't play the movie. Then open QuickTime, go to the Help Menu, and select Update Existing Software. It should give you a message asking you if you want to download the component for the file type you just tried to open. Let it download it and you're set.

Sorry for the vague description; I did this several weeks ago and don't remember the exact procedure, but this should get you there. After you download the necessary component the file associations will be set automatically. Of course, you could also just install the proper component by running QuickTime Updater and clicking Custom, but I never bothered to learn which component it was that plays mqv files. When it asked me if I wanted to download the component I just said yes and didn't learn its name.