Quicktime movies in Vista MCE

agent86oz · #1 (**permalink**) 25th February 2007, 12:05 AM

I want to play quicktime movies using MCE so I can play, rew, pause etc with the MCE Remote. I have worked out DivX and XviD fine. I have a lot of mov video.

Thanks

hawkeye · #2 (**permalink**) 25th February 2007, 08:06 AM

Try Quicktime Alternative.
Just google Quicktime Alternative

kiwidoc · #3 (**permalink**) 28th February 2007, 05:05 PM

Hi there

I've had the problem of after installing QT alternative, it will play .mov files quite happliy in mediaplayer 11, but doesn't get picked up in Mediacentre (this is on vista, when i had MCE2005 it went fine)

Any obvious reason/fix?

Thanks

Just found the answer on greenbutton,.com:

You need to install Quicktime Alternative. This has a DirectShow Quicktime plug-in that will allow .movs to play within Media Player or even Media Centre. However, for the .mov files to even appear in MCE, you need to make the following registry edit:

In HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mov create a REG_SZ called "PerceivedType" and name it "video".

Worked a treat. (one has to ask why Olympus made there cameras to record video in a format used by about 5% of the population - if you are a PC fiddler like most of us then we'll find a way around it, for the vast majority it'll be no holiday videos on the MCE machine).