H.263 encoded video on FC3

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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.

Thanks for any help.

Simon Bone


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