Roman Haefeli wrote:
without having any expertise in this field, i suggest to edit your mov files with an hexeditor and change the value in the header of the mov-file accordingly, so that it can be read by Quicktime.
Thanks. Could you point me to good online info on file formats, so that I know what to change?
the option of having to completely reinstall the operating system because of some wrongly set bit in a few files seems really crazy :-(
I agree 100%. It's the sort of hitting-a-fly-with-sledgehammer approach that Windows tech support was always recommending. I was disappointed to find it recommended by Mac users (or possibly Mac support, I'm not sure which).
-- Dudley