Quicktime .mov's -> Avi/Ogm/Mkv using Avisynth?

[nimbles]

Basically, theres a few of these E3 2004 trailers that are quicktime only (unplayable at the moment with XBox media center- which uses mplayer) and i'm aware of the radtools solution, but was wondering whether it is possible to convert the quicktime (6 i think is the problematic one- mplayer seems to be able to cope with quicktime 5 .mov's) to one of the "non apple" containers using the avisynth+vdubmod+xvid combo- and assuming that quicktime has its own audio codec is it possible to demux that re-encode that and remux with the video into one of the containers mentioned above?

I think i tried the directshowsource method once and it just had a spaz? but it could have been "user error" too ;)

[celtic_druid]

mplayer can play quicktime files fine though?? You need the extra codec files though if it isn't say sorrenson and aac.

Directshow source only works for stuff that dshow decoders are available, which is basically all of which mplayer can also decode.

The other option is to use the quicktime VFAPI plugin, which works ok with AVISynth.

Something like:
LoadVFAPIPlugin("QTReader.vfp", "QTReader")
QTReader("whatever.mov")
flipvertical()
selectevery(24,1)

[nimbles]

thanks celtic druid, yeah i'm not an mplayer (for linux- which is what xbmc uses for media playback) user myself, but that's the stock quote from the xbmc devs whenever a filetype that is listed as being compatible doesn't work, and not being a developer myself i'm not gonna argue with them ;)

there is a list of addional codecs from the downloadable x86 codec packs that are supported by xbmc but unfortunately they are only wm* and realplayer related.

Isn't the flipvertical() command gonna invert the video vertically? and selectevery(24,1) gonna mean only every frames 1,25,49 etc gets used? or is this some qwirk of the QTReader.vfp? :confused:

[celtic_druid]

Yep, it flips the video, as such it needs flipping back. Also does some strange things to the framerate. Oh yeah, being a VFAPI plugin it converts to RGB24 which would explain the flipping.

[PS2Daddy]

If you get the pro version of quicktime you can convert it to .avi or mpeg1

Cleaner also a great job at conversions
http://www4.discreet.com/cleanerxl/