Re: Movie Corruption Issue
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http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocalOn Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Stephen Bunnell wrote:
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> Has anyone else encountered this problem on the Mac? Any thoughts?
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I've run into something similar, though in Windows. I had a PowerPoint presentation that I created in 1999 and decided to display it recently. It worked fine, except that none of the .mov files would display. When I converted it to OpenOffice Presenter in Linux, it worked fine.
A friend pointed out a Microsoft announcement about it. According to Microsoft, it was necessary to convert the file to .avi. I did it two ways -- first I used Quicktime Pro to convert the files to avi. Later, someone told me all I had to do was *rename* the files, so I tried it and that worked, too.
It turns out that it isn't the *format* as much as the *compression scheme* and a codec change. See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q266983/I suspect, then, that it may not be a OS issue, but an application issue, probably involving a codec mismatch.
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