MOV conversion advice

[WD Forte]

Bought and downloaded some tutorial vids to find they're .mov files
The supplied front end menu thing is a bit crap and VLC player
wont or cant play them presumably due to some DRM thing?

What's good for un-DRM-ing them so I can select the relevent files and play them using VLC?

I download and tried 2 progs, one wouldn't touch them and the other only
offerd a limited service unless I threw money at them
They both installed all manner of shit on my PC as well which pissed me off.

freeware would be nice.

TIA
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[CaNsA]

Upload them to mega.co.nz and pm me the link.

[WD Forte]

Thanks, I had another look and found some freeware
which I'm currently downloading ( slow but free internet here)
If it works, I'm good
Will let you know
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[Doovy]

Quicktime?
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[MarJay]

At the risk of going all Tef:

What you need to do with this file in the first instance is re-wrap it. There should be a bunch of open source tools to do this as FFMpeg can do it I think, but that's just an open source framework. No doubt someone will have written some tasty open source FFMpeg based GUI to do it for you. The essence inside the file doesn't really matter, (It's probably MPEG 2 anyway), but you probably want to convert it into an MXF or something so that VLC likes it better.
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[WD Forte]

Thanks for the replies

I'm utterly sick and tired with it all now

I installed/tried another two progs
One seemed promising and about to do the job, let me load the 28 mov files
then said "you only get 3 minutes"
then "you gimme fifty dollah, I love you long time"
or words to that effect.
Ahh! so that's what free download means
Took a while weed out the crap it loaded again with Ccleaner

I saw itunes suggested elsewhere but
I don't want or need anything other then VLC really
as it plays every other media file I have as and how I like and
I'm reluctant to buy software for just one use.

Cansas offer was good but I don't have broadband and it took ages to download
so uploading would be PITA and I couldn't connect to mega.co.nz anyway
(this free network imposing a restriction perhaps? dunno)

Now I'm thinking ah fuck it
It isnt as if I can't view them, just not in the way I'd like
I'll just put up with the wanky front end and never ever ever!
download shit like this again.

I may have go at the wikihow tips when I have the emotional strength
for more tears and tantrums.
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[ScaredyCat]

VLC will play .mov files if you have the codecs you need. mov is just a wrapper round the file.

Also search Youtube for them or since you've paid for them you can torrent with a clear conscience.

Just out of interest, have you tried something like gopro studio to convert it? (It's free).
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