Is MP4 created to be incompatible with PC's

[Perryg114]

I am trying to convert an MP4 flipshare movie to something I can use in a powerpoint presentation and I have tried several converters and either they do a crappy job of converting or they won't convert at all. I don't know if Flipshare is using some sort of copy protection or what, why they would do this is beyond me. I have tried DVDFab and Any DVD. I definately won't be buying a Flipshare if I have to spend more than the camera costs to convert the videos to something I can use.

Perry

 

[Gooberlx2]

Win XP or Win Vista/7? What formats have you tried converting to?

Why can't you just embed the mp4 itself in to powerpoint?

 

[Slugbait]

I think you're looking for SuperC: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html. I use it for converting movies for my w580i, works well.

 

[Perryg114]

I have tried to convert to WMV and avi files. I can get some conversion but I have problems using the resulting file in my Ulead 11 movie editor. I am using XP pro. It may be the file I am trying to convert is corrupted.

Perry

 

[Gooberlx2]

Can you actually play the original mp4 file? Do you already have quicktime installed (or other codecs, like ffdshow)? If so, try just putting the file in your powerpoint as it is. Why waste time transcoding anyway?

 

[Phynaz]

You're using 4 year old software. Does it even support MP4 files?

 

[kamikazekyle]

If my research is right, Flipshare uses the 3ivx codec, which while being a MPEG-4 codec (and being stashed in an MP4 container), isn't h264 compatible. 3ivx is Part 2 while the standard h264 is Part 10. It's kinda like DivX, just a bit more of a pain to work with.

You might have luck with Freemake (http://www.freemake.com/) or maaaaaybe Handbrake (http://www.handbrake.fr) to convert to a standard H264 format (or something else, like MPEG2 which should work in Ulead 11). Freemake will probably let you go to a Windows-natively compatible WMV, too.

There's also ffmpeg if you want to get nitty gritty on the command line -- though there are graphical front ends available -- or VLC's stream conversion if the source file plays OK in VLC.

SuperC can also work, but it's output has been very unreliable for me, and they used to be on ffmepg's wall of shame for license violations.

Anything that uses ffdshow's DirectX components or ffmpeg as a backend for conversion should work, as their codec cores natively support 3vix and x264, and should be able to give you output to a fairly Windows standard format.

 

[Slugbait]

...using the resulting file in my Ulead 11 movie editor...

Ulead.

Many years ago, I think it was my video card installation disc (Ti200 Personal Cinema? maybe...) that forcibly installed Ulead apps, they weren't part of the Advanced install wizard to be unchecked. Wreaked absolute havoc with my machine, and so after hours of troubleshooting I decided to flatten the box...then repro'd right away. Looked in Add/Remove and said to myself, "Myself, what the fuck are applications doing in my Add/Remove Programs window before I've installed a single app?" Did some looking around on the web, found I wasn't alone in my grief.

Anytime someone types "Ulead", I feel sharp stabbing knives in my eyeballs.

But I'm sure it's a fine application now...

 

[NAC]

Try FFMPEG, and the GUI frontend WinFF:

http://winff.org/html_new/

 

[AkumaX]

TMPGEnc?