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Originally Posted by JustDaveXxx
The fact that he is dealing with an MOV tells me we are dealing with a MAC. I don't think windows movie maker will work with Macs.
Like i said, i had to deal with this and there were no free options that let me convert MOV into a WMV, Windows media 9 codec.
Even Sorenson Squeeze does not do Windows Media 9. I had to buy the plug WMV coder plug in to make it do what I needed it to do.
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MOV files are for the PC, too. It's just the common name for files in a Quicktime container. Most of the time the actual video inside is H.264.
There may or may not be free solutions for this on the PC side, but it's not impossible to do for free if you have the correct toolset. You'd need a DirectShow filter that can render H.264 files in a MOV container (one is included in the ffdshow codec set), and then connect it to Windows Media Encoder, which is/was free. (It's still free, but in a different version than what they used to have. I think you can probably find the old version for WinXP if you look hard enough.)
The reason it works is that WME uses a plugin architecture, so as long as there's a DirectShow filter for MOV files, it'll work. There are a few such filters, and the one in ffdshow is pretty good. (Other software, like Windows Movie Maker, flat out rejects the file format because of design, even if there's a MOV filter installed on your system.) Apple still hates Microsoft, and Microsoft still hates Apple.)
Not to say that any of this is worth it. You have to know what you're doing to install and use ffdshow, and WME is not an end-user product. Most of the video converters is software from China that basically leverages these two (plus other) freebie apps, and mashes it up with an interface.