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User profile for user: JASONxJASON
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MooV video file format

I have a number of .MooV video files from an older interactive application. The interactive plays these videos fine, however I'm unable to open them in any video players including Quicktime. I'm also having trouble converting these to another format that's more widely used.

I'm not sure how they were created originally or how the application was built either.

Has anyone ever come across this file format?

G5, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 22, 2008 8:34 AM

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User profile for user: Klaus1
Klaus1
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Oct 22, 2008 9:11 AM in response to JASONxJASON

There is a useful 'history lesson' here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-107470.html

From what I have been able to ascertain, you will need the old Avid Meridian codecs to play or convert a moov file, possibly available from here:

http://avidtechnology.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/avidtechnology.cfg/php/enduser/stdadp.php?pfaqid=69060

but something tells me that this will only work with OS 9.

As you are running a G5 with Leopard you must have had Tiger originally and presumably also the Classic environment which should still be available on your original Tiger install disks.

You could try installing Classic (OS 9.2) on a partition to see if it would work, although Classic is not supposed to work with Leopard.
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User profile for user: JASONxJASON
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Oct 23, 2008 6:57 AM in response to Klaus1

Hey thanks for the help. I was able to find a fresh batch of the .MooV files (they may have been corrupted after passing through a PC server) and as well I installed some Avid codecs. When I loaded it into Quicktime 7.5 under OS10.4, it actually plays the files but only as blank screens. However, it does know the length and I was able to inspect the video properties. There is no sound associated with the files.

It looks like it was created using the MoviePak video format. I tried searching a bit but I wasn't able to locate this codec. Have you or anyone seen this codec before and perhaps know where to find it?
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Oct 27, 2008 7:16 AM in response to JASONxJASON

Does anyone have the MoviePak video codec?

Update: I can get sound and play the length of the video of my .MooV file, but my video is a big blank. I've tried it in Leopard, Tiger and classic OS 9 - all the same issue. QuickTime Movie Inspector says it's MoviePak Video.

Thanks klaus1 for the help and advice. I still haven't solved my issue unfortunately.
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User profile for user: Joey Pepperoni
Joey Pepperoni
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Nov 6, 2008 8:17 AM in response to JASONxJASON

WE GOT IT!!

Found the codec needed (Codec was from 1992) on an old G4 Cube!

It was a pain getting the extension off the system because if the file was ever moved to an OS X system it would corrupt. Had to use an OLD verion of stuffit Lite (1.5.1...yikes) to compress it and then move it over.

Installed it into the extensions folder, loaded up quicktime and voila, the system now plays the file. I converted them into a modern day quicktime format using Apple Animation encoding.

I have a SIT file with the codec posted at http://forum.videohelp.com/topic358653.html#1905032 in case anyone needs it.
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