.mkv and VirtualDubMod

[post-it]

more than likely, it does not understand the AVI codec you have used:

VDmod and AviDemux were made to solve simple "single line edits"
like cutting and joining appends. fmpegsource actually relies on
the codec-pack you have installed for your Windows Media Player:
CCCP .. ffdshow_rev1381_20070729_clsid .. IV5.0 .. ya know, actual
codec's

SUPER and others like mkvtoolnix-unicode-2.5.1-setup do work quite well.

[JazzyDJ]

I had vista codec pack installed and then upon adjusting to instructions in this thread I installed CCCP. Everything was great for a while, though now I am having trouble getting .mov files from my camera to play in Windows Media Center like they used to.

[post-it]

yeah, I hear ya on that one; my MOV files play but are un-editable

.. the camera I have is an AIPTEK 8mega pic's and 1080P 30 FPS/ 720P 60 FPS HD.
The pictures look great. The video plays flawlessly but is impossible to edit, even with
the AVS editer that came with the camera ... I'm begining to think that its
the MOV CODEC that encodes the H264 video itself!

I just wonder if the MOV codec is soooooo new that no one has time to create
the newest codec for this version !?!!

[Kariudo]

quicktime alternative

post-it: the .mov container isn't new...(it's also not a codec). Please stop speculating, it just confuses everyone

[Qyot27]

FFmpegSource does not rely on ffdshow, it only relies on itself - just like the DG- source filters only rely on themselves. AVISource and DirectShowSource would rely on ffdshow, though, if the format of the video in question is set to be decoded by it.

Haali's Media Splitter handles MOV files without issues. And considering ffdshow does in fact decode the lion's share of common distro formats you'll find in MOV, Quicktime Alternative is pretty much irrelevant (there would be a benefit if it supports stuff like Apple ProRes, Intermediate, and Animation, but it begs the question why you'd even be using those on Windows without having converted them to something else while still on your Mac, as it's surely rare to find such files in the wild).

And installing MKVToolNix will do absolutely nothing for your playback capability. It's a muxing/extraction/info tool suite, nothing else.

[post-it]

.. downloaded FFmpegSource,
Haali Matroska Splitter 11.01.2009 and
Quicktimealt290 and have been playing with them all day.. no difference, no change even after conversion; this is making no sence! ???