Unknown video codec (conversion imposible)

[Swanick]

I downloaded a video in AVI format. Naturally, I assumed it would be DivX or Xvid compatible. But when I tried playing it in Quicktime, I got an error message. I tried it with VLC. The sound played fine, but there was no video. So I tried converting it with ffmpegX, but it kept failing, no matter what encoding format I chose (I tried standard MPEG-4 and DivX). So I looked at the info in VLC:



Apparently this new video codec is part of the MPEG-2 group, according to ffmpegX. My question: Is there anything I can download (codec, plugin, filter) to successfully convert the video to another format to view in Quicktime?

[jimmalenko]

According to http://www.fourcc.org/ , http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx might assist,

[Jacke]

AFAIK, the Quicktime WMV component only handles audio/video inside WMV/ASF files.

If you have the Pro version of the WMV component that allows for exporting, you can use WMV3Server to extract the separate tracks from the AVI file (it will save them to your home directory after being run) and encode the video to something else with QT Pro/other Quicktime app.