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Can't get a movie off my iPhone 4

I shot a movie on my iPhone 4. It plays back fine on my iPhone 4. However, I can't get it off the phone onto my Mac in a playable form.

When I try to import it into iPhoto, I get the message "The following file could not be imported. (The file is in an unrecognized format.)"

If I look at my iPhone from Image Capture I see the movie and I can drag the movie from the Image Capture window onto my desktop. It shows up on my desktop as a 74 MB file titled "IMG_1430.MOV". However, when I try to open that file in QuickTime Player 7, I get an alert that says "The movie could not be opened. The file is not a movie."

As I said, the file plays fine on my iPhone, and was even able to publish a compressed version of it from my iPhone directly to Mobile Me.

Anyone have any ideas how I can get the original version off my phone in a playable form?

MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 31, 2010 7:05 PM

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Oct 5, 2010 9:40 PM in response to Andrew Shalit

How odd, I have no problems.

I also use "WIFI photo Transfer", an app that lets you pull photos and video from the iphone via wifi (and your computers web browser.
And it's FREE!!

But maybe your quicktime is having issues playing the video?
Can you test by putting the video on someone else's computer?
Try getting WIFI Photo Transfer and trying to watch or download to another computer.

Nov 10, 2010 3:52 PM in response to Andrew Shalit

It's independent of whether you can play the video or not, but FYI you can transfer the video file to your Mac using the program Image Capture.

I'm having the same problem, I copied the file to my Mac but I can't play it. Neither QuickTime Player nor VLC can open it.

VLC's debug log shows:

vobsub debug: could not read vobsub IDX file
ps error: cannot peek
main warning: no demux module matching "mp4" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 6.143 ms - Total 6.143 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 6.143 ms)
main error: no suitable demux module for `/:///Volumes/Media/Downloads/IMG_0065.MOV'

I have no ideas on what to try next.

Can't get a movie off my iPhone 4

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