H.263 encoded video on FC3

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Simon Bone wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been given a digital camera which can record video. I managed by
> good luck to get the first video footage of my baby nephew on it;
> obviously I want to access it, and keep a bit of family history safe! I
> can get it off the camera onto my hard drive with no trouble. It arrives
> as a file with the extension .mov, and I can't play it (see below).
>
> Just in case anyone else wants to gripe, please let me add that the
> camera was a Kodak. Model is CX7330. And still images are giving me no
> trouble out of the box, which is nice.
>
> I've tried running this in a two video players (Totem, Helix Player) as
> they were installed in FC3. It's not working due to some sort of missing
> codec support. But what?
>
> The camera docs tell me it is Quicktime Codec H.263 for video, and G.711
> for audio. Googling based on this told me very little, except that
> various attempts to play H263 video exist. I couldn't learn what
> packages I am going to need to install.
>
> I haven't messed with the configuration of these programs - they are
> exactly as they came when they were installed from the FC3 disks. Well,
> except for an update to the Helix Player recently. I mean to say, I
> haven't added any codecs yet, nor tried to change the back ends used,
> which I notice is doable with Totem at least.
>
> Is H263 an open standard or not? I hope so, since it's the only format I
> can access this video in - and bear in mind that this is *my*
> intellectual property here! I already gathered that quicktime is mostly
> owned by Apple. I rather wish that this "just worked", but I guess a bit
> of effort will be worth it. I have installed MP3 support from livia, so
> I'm not opposed to trying an external repo if I must, nor to doing what
> I must to get at this stuff.

it's mpeg4 basically...

either mplayer or vlc (videolan) which are available from freshrpms 
and other repos should be able to play it.

> Thanks for any help.
>
> Simon Bone
>
>

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