Fix Incorrect .Mov file?

[berek1138]

Okay. Here is my situation. Trying to author a DVD from client footage. To this point all the footage supplied to me has been quicktime .mov files in sorenson 3 compression. My latest batch of footage is from what we can tell the same compression codec. It will work on my client's machine, but I get an error when trying to open it up in quick time: "couldn't open the file, because it is not a format quick time understands" I've had the client reburn me a copy, but still getting the same error. I've tried opening this file in premiere, aftereffects and media player, all with the same result. There is a possibility it could be encoded differently, but I am unable to confirm which codec is being used. Is there a way to analyze the .mov file to find out which codec it's using, or is there any way to force a program to read the file (i.e. changing file ext to .dat such as a VCD file can be played by Media Player)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. So far, the only thing I can think is to have the client re-encoding with a different codec, then having him burn yet another copy (which unfortunately could take weeks)?

[DJRumpy]

Try using AVICodec, or GSpot in the TOOLS section. They should report what codec was used to encode the file.