Opening a .MOV in AVISynth

[sphinx99]

Trying to open a .MOV file from my Canon 7D in AVISynth. For reference, this is a 1080p .mov file from the camera.

I installed Quicktime Alternative 3.1.1 (no issues) but when I open the file in AVISynth with DirectShowSource(filename), I get "Cannot open file / format not supported" messages for video and audio. The file itself plays fine in Windows Media Player, etc.

PC is Windows 7 x64, but all the apps I've installed are 32-bit.

I ran GSpot on the file, it says the container is Quicktime, 1920x1080x29.971, codec is AVC1 H.264 but status is "Codec Status Undetermined"

[poisondeathray]

I would use either qtsource or ffmpegsource2

For directshowsource to work , you have to setup your directshow filter chain and qt source splitter correctly in graphstudio/graphedit .

[sphinx99]

Wow, qtsource worked perfectly! Thank you!

[duhmez]

Nice! never heard of qtsource before I found this thread. I will give a tip to anyone who reads this post though, when you use qtsource, the syntax is actually qtinput(video.mov), different than the name of the plugin iitself.

[ricardouk]

if you change filetype from mov to hdmov (rename the file) you can use DirectShowSource....just in case qtsource doesn't work