[Neil Parr-davies]

Thanks all, that seems to work. Now all I have to do is shell out $80 – I take it there’s no other (free!) option?

[Neil Parr-davies]

Hi, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, no joy.

VLC tells me

No suitable decoder module
VLC does not support the audio or video format "xdv3". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

ffmpegx gives me this:

Encoding started on Thu Nov 19 13:11:57 GMT 2009
MEncoder dev-CVS-060307-04:23-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
FIXME:Hardenabling SSE and SSE2 without detection
CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x16458000
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
VIDEO: [xdv3] 1440x1080 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:7 fourcc:0x33766478 size:1440x1080 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
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MOV: version 2 sound atom may not parse correctly!
MOV: unable to determine audio samplerate, assuming 44.1kHz (got 1)
MOV: version 2 sound atom may not parse correctly!
MOV: unable to determine audio samplerate, assuming 44.1kHz (got 1)
MOV: version 2 sound atom may not parse correctly!
MOV: unable to determine audio samplerate, assuming 44.1kHz (got 1)
MOV: version 2 sound atom may not parse correctly!
MOV: unable to determine audio samplerate, assuming 44.1kHz (got 1)
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6D63706C.
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=640 h=272]
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33766478.
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