Quicktime Problem

[macEfan]

I downloaded a movie that was about the 30th apple aniversery and it was a .mov file. Then, i try to open it and I get a quicktime error as follows:

QuickTime cannot open the file: "apple.mov"
it is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048)

How can Quicktime not understand a .MOV file?????

please help and thanks in advance!

 

[randas]

maby the file is corrupted

 

[macEfan]

hm, I went to the web link and it says the same thing But it must work, becasuse other people said they saw it and wrote comments about it.

 

[mpw]

^What's the link?

 

[macEfan]

here is the link:
http://unirrelevant.be/30years/

it 86 mb by the way.

 

[xsedrinam]

Try opening it with VLC media player. That should work. My guess is that, though it shows a .mov extension, it's probably an mpeg1. Anyway, it opened with VLC 0.8.4.

 

[macEfan]

Just wondering, what is a VLC media player?

 

[xsedrinam]

Just wondering, what is a VLC media player?

http://getfreedownloadz.com/index.asp?PID=e6695f33-7835-4eb1-8edc-b119c795ce9c&sft=34

 

[mkrishnan]

Also, though, are you sure you have the latest Quicktime? Is it possible it uses a DIVX plugin or somesuch? The .mov file is a wrapper, sort of... that is, it can contain any codec. Not necessarily just ones QT can understand. Although it's odd that a video about Apple, with a thumbnail of it playing in QT, would not play in QT for you.

 

[macEfan]

Thanks for your help everyone! I got it to play with the VLC player.