unrecognized file?

[ninesixfour]

I was able to convert one video I had copied from my DVR, but on the 2nd one I tried, the left side of the ffmpegX box says "unrecognized". The file is in .m2t format just like the first one that worked. Any ideas?

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our ffmpegx section.

[Case]

Try opening the file in MPEG Streamclip, then File > Convert to MPEG, to 'fix' the file and give it a regular MPEG header. MPEG Streamclip will give its output file a .mpeg suffix. Change that to .mpg for better support in ffmpegX. Now ffmpegX should understand your file better.

[ninesixfour]

MPEG Streamclip says, "error: can't find the first video frame" when I try to convert it to MPEG.

[ninesixfour]

OK I tried another 1 minute sample and ffmpegx recognized the file, I was able to watch it with MPlayer, but when I converted it to a .mov, Quicktime would not play the file, saying it wasn't a movie file.