help recoding QT movie clip

[dnix71]

I have a 3 minute clip of a DEA agent shooting himself while giving a gun safety lecture at a school.

It will only play in QT. I have ffusion, flip4mac and AC3 codecs in the QT library. VLC reports the file as WMV2 as does ffmpegX, but GSpot in VPC Win98SE says it's "not a valid avi file" that uses 3ivx codecs.

Toast will take the file and recode to a DVD movie, but the sound is fast and chopped up. ffmpegX will demux, but can't deal with the audio, either. MPlayer won't play the file at all, WMP in Windows won't play the file and crashes trying. VLC tries to play, but no audio and the video is random blotches. WMP9 for MacOSX says it's invalid and won't play it.

QTAmateur won't export it and iSquint errors out trying. iSquint thinks it's a WMV2 also

This is from the iSquint crash log.

"Duration: 00:02:49.2, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 286 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: WMA2 / 0x32414D57, 44100 Hz, stereo
Stream #0.1(eng): Video: wmv2, yuv420p, 320x240, 29.97 fps(r)"

TMPGEnc Plus in VPC Win98SE chokes on the file and refuses to accept it, even though GSpot claims the 3ivx codecs successfully render it in Direct Show.

Any suggestions as to what this is and if it's possible to make it into an mp4?

[terryj]

go get iShowU.
If QT can play it, iShowU will "hijack" it,
and make a clean file in QT movie format,
with the codecs of your choice.

[dnix71]

iShowU only works in Tiger, unfortunately. QT Amateur can usually export anything QT can play, but not this one.

I downloaded several different versions of this clip, all supposed to be flv, but most won't convert. One finally did. This may have been recoded or copied until it became corrupt enough not to convert but still play. I've gotten mp3's that way. The wmv2 codec part still puzzles me. These should all have been Flash video.

[terryj]

send me a link to the file via PM.
I'd like to take a crack at it.
I won't rib you about not being on Tiger
( and it being 2007!) but without it, you miss on
some great apps that get the job done fairly quickily:
Perian the codec to decode flv files natively in QT,
iShowU to hijack Video and save to QT compatible files...
the list is growing, and Panther and Jaguar are getting left behind
rather quickly.

[pixel zombie]

i'd like to see that clip as well...

[pixel zombie]

iShowU only works in Tiger, unfortunately. QT Amateur can usually export anything QT can play, but not this one.

I downloaded several different versions of this clip, all supposed to be flv, but most won't convert. One finally did. This may have been recoded or copied until it became corrupt enough not to convert but still play. I've gotten mp3's that way. The wmv2 codec part still puzzles me. These should all have been Flash video.

just use the "activity" trick in safari to get the clip and then convert using VisualHub since you're still using 10.3.9..