MOV2AVI

[FlipMC]

ok i need help how can i get the sound from the .mov file i already know how to get the movie but i want the sound how do i do that i tried using Mov2Avi but this is the error i get..

c:\unzipped\mov2avi>mov2avi and1 tour commercial - anthem.mov -w
mov2avi - quicktime to avi converter
copyright (c) 20001 James Holderness

Failure: fnfErr

whats wrong? please help.

[FlipMC]

can sum1 please help me

[BadAsh]

I'm not a MOV2AVI expert by any means and I have never tried this but have you tried enclosing your file name in quotes?

It appears your file has a long file name with spaces. Many command line utilities require you to put quotes around long file names that use spaces.

Try:

MOV2AVI "long file name with spaces.mov" -w

Give it a go.

[Whoosh25]

...or try mov2av~1.mov as the file name.

[Whoosh25]

Oh yeah!!!...I'm happy because I finally converted that 80MB Star Wars fan-made film called Duality with mov2avi and made it into a SVCD.

[BadAsh]

I think what Whoosh25 is trying to say is that under "DOS" (such as that in Win9x or WinME) if you do a directory listing "type DIR" you will see that a file such as "My Long File Name.mov" will show up as something like "MyLong~1.mov".

Get to a Command Line and type "DIR" (in the directory of the MOV file) to get a directory listing. Note the file name. IF it has a "~1" in it like illustrated above then use that file name with MOV2AVI.

MOV2AVI MyLong~1.mov -w

instead of

MOV2AVI My Long File Name.mov -w

The reason the long file name doesn't work with this or any other command line utility is because the program parses the "parameter list" for special commands. In this case it is looking for the parameter file name and in the case of the example above it gets "My" and then it looks at the rest of the line and doesn't know what to do with "Long" and "File" and "Name.mov" because they are not known parameters.

Does that make sense? I hope so.

Cheers!

[FlipMC]

thanks for the help cuz all i do is wanna get the sound from the .mov file since i use rad tools to get the movie and it has no sound i tried using mov2avi to get the sound but it gets very complicated do any of u know any other easier program that will get the sound from a .mov file?

[thxkid]

use TMPGE beta b version and get the MOV plug in at this site I did a mov to MPEG1 and MPEG2 came out perfect.

[FlipMC]

Well i tried doing that .mov to .mpg but someone said that the TMPGenc cant handle the .mov or w-e i tried it myself and that thing just froze on me all i just want is to encode the sound from a .mov file to .wav i already know how to put the movie to .avi isnt there a program to get the sound from a .mov file?

[FlipMC]

please someone help me i waited quite a while just to transfer .mov to .avi i just need to know how to get the sound from the .mov file

[FlipMC]

please someone help me i waited quite a while just to transfer .mov to .avi i just need to know how to get the sound from the .mov file that is all can someone help me thanks bad ash for the help

[haubrija]

do you not want to use total recorder... i love this little program and the sound always comes out perfect for me while dealing with copywrited .mov