Playing Quicktime HDV video (hdv3)

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I received some HD videos that were edited in Final Cut Pro. They are Quicktime files. GSpot reports that the fourcc is "hdv3". I am trying to play the files on a Windows machine.

Quicktime Player reports that "a required compressor cannot be found". It will play the audio, but no video.

VLC also plays the audio but not the video.

Any suggestions regarding playing these file in Windows (i.e. codec to install, different player to try, etc.)? Thanks in advance.

[setarip_old]

Hi!I received some HD videos that were edited in Final Cut Pro.

Since "received" (and your lack of knowledge about the codec used to create them) indicates that you've neither purchased nor created these videos, you might want to RE-read the "Announcement" at the top of the "Newbies" sub-forum, as well as all of the Forum Rules (particularly #6)...

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I have answered my own question, as I was able to play the videos with MPlayer.

Setarip,

Thanks for your concern, however, these are videos that I have the rights to use. My customer contracted with someone in Eurpoe to do some editing since it was less expensive. It would be very unlikely that any copyrighted content would be redistributed in HDV anyway, as it is mostly a consumer/prosumer camcorder format.

[setarip_old]

Setarip,

Thanks for your concern, however, these are videos that I have the rights to use. My customer contracted with someone in Eurpoe to do some editing since it was less expensive. It would be very unlikely that any copyrighted content would be redistributed in HDV anyway, as it is mostly a consumer/prosumer camcorder format.Since we all are required to abide by the rules (Rule #6 indicates that a member responding to a violating question can also be cited), such information as you've now provided would have better served had you included it in your initial post to this thread...

[foxyshadis]

Yes, you're getting rather overzealous, setarip. Frankly, I used to not know how to deal with half the stuff I'd get handed and told to make something out of.

Anyone can receive anything, it doesn't have to be a euphemism, especially when it's a professional intermediate format and not a consumer one.

[Blue_MiSfit]

I've had success with MOVs containing HDV by remuxing to MKV.

HDV is just MPEG2 video + MP2 audio, so there's nothing special there.

The tricky bit is this: the program that stuffs these two streams into a QuickTime MOV (I forget what it's called) does things very strangely.

Remuxing will usually fix it, but YMMV.

~MiSfit