QuickTime is a media framework developed by Apple. It is mostly known for its QuickTime Player, which is available for Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
Questions tagged [quicktime]
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Why can't Quicktime play a movie file encoded by FFmpeg?
When I try to open a movie I just created with the command:
ffmpeg -pattern_type glob -i '*.JPG' -s 640x480 movie.mp4
I get an error from QuickTime:
The document “movie.mp4” could not be opened.
The file may be damaged or may not be a movie file…
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How do I rotate video (MOV) file on Windows?
I recorded a video (on iPhone) in portrait mode. Now I need to rotate it. Right now I have a MOV file. I'm using Windows. What program can I use to rotate and save this video without losing quality?
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Reduce MOV file size
I have a folder full of MOV videos taken by my DMC-FX10. The problem is that the occupy too much space, and I am wondering if it is possible to compress them without losing quality?
All videos have a resolution of 640*480.
Example: 3 minutes video @…
user81496
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Combine MOV video files
I'm on Arch Linux 4.13.10 and I'd like to combine multiple .MOV files shot with a Canon EOS camera.
I tried to convert the files to transport streams (.ts files) using FFmpeg, as shown here, but sound was missing from the resulting file.
I'd prefer…
Matthias Braun
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How to start QuickTime recording at command line?
How to start QuickTime video recording on a MacBook at the command line?
ohho
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What parameters should I be looking at to reduce the size of a .MOV file?
My Canon 60D creates .MOV files when recording video and I've found out that the .MOV container has an H264 video stream and a PCM audio stream.
I've used ffmpeg and GSpot to look at some of my videos, and I see what seem to be pretty high…
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How do I repair a broken .mov (QuickTime) file?
I have a video file (.mov > QuickTime) which was recorded with a VHoldr ContourHD camera.
One of the problems with this camera is that when the battery dies, it doesn't terminate the video file correctly... which is exactly what happened to my…
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How to extract audio from mov, or directly convert mov 2 ogg, on OSX?
I have a number of sound-only .mov files that I need in an audio format, preferably .wav or .ogg. What are the options to achieve this conversion on a Mac?
Daniel Mietchen
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Windows 7 File Associations .mov
I created a new windows 7 SP1 base image.
Everything is all fine and dandy with that.
So i am now installing standard applications
I would like Quicktime to manage .mov files. The only problem is WMP (Windows Media Player) won't give up the…
Paul Mung
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Recovered video files won't play
I have an SD card with pictures and video which malfunctioned. I was able to recover the files with Photorec. The pictures are OK, but wen I try to open the vide files (*.mov extension) in get the following errors when I try to open them in the…
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Trimming / cropping a movie file?
Now, I'm not really sure what's the exact term here. As far as I saw, cropping is related to video size.
I need a program to trim some parts of the video file. On a timescale, for example, from 0-60s, I'd like to trim the parts from 14-20s, and from…
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Re-encode 4K video to H.265/HEVC with FFmpeg for playback in QuickTime
I have a one hour 4K video which was weighing in at 10 GB. I thought I'd try re-encoding to HEVC using FFmpeg to try to save space, something I hadn't tried before.
However, I switched the container format from .m4v to .mp4, which I didn't realize…
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Remove Quicktime from Firefox
No matter what I try, the Quicktime plugin in Firefox on Vista will not go away. I have deleted all of the plugin files in "Mozilla Firefox/plugins" as well as unistalling the program itself and deleting the junk still left behind in Program…
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Metadata editor for quicktime (.mov) files
My photo camera records video as .mov files. They have some metadata (in the XMP format?), which I can read using exiftool. For example, to get only the metadata related to dates/times I can do:
$ exiftool MVI_3735.MOV | grep -i Date
File…
Filipe Correia
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How do I stop QuickTime from repeatedly stealing file associations?
Every time I update Quicktime on both Vista and XP, I lose file associations I made for VLC (my preferred player). I only keep QT around for the odd browser video, and would prefer to keep it without it surprising me every couple months by stealing…
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