Recent content by bigmessowires

It's great that so many people are reporting better image quality when using the Mac Sync-inator. To be totally honest, I do not understand it. There's nothing that the device does to enhance image quality, it was only intended to change the sync signals to a different format that would be...

OK, under OSX 10.4.11 QuickTime 7.6.4 I registered for QuickTime Pro, and then used QuickTime Player's "Save As... Save as a Self-Contained Movie". But the resulting file still doesn't seem to work on my current MacBook Air running Ventura 13.4. When I try to open it, first it says "This file...

Sorry but could you clarify - do you mean QuckTime Player, or what is "MoviePlayer"? I'm looking on my OS9.2 system and there's no application called MoviePlayer. It has QuickTime 5.0.2, I don't see any version number on QuickTime Player but it doesn't have any menu options related to saving or...

I have seen that exact phenomenon where grayed out menu items are invisible, and as previously discussed I'm pretty sure it's due to the presence of sync-on-green.

I see. So to avoid re-encoding the original video, basically you would use QuickTime 7's "save as self-contained movie" option, rather than converting it to MP4 or AVI. FYI I haven't heard anything more from the school... at the moment I only have one .dmg file containing two videos, and none...

Thanks! I actually don't think I own any machine that will run QuickTime 7 - everything I have is either too old or too new - but I'll try QuickTime 4 under OS 9. The converted video seems to run at about 5 fps. Does it look the same when you viewed the original?

Well, I may have to forfeit my classic Mac collector card over this. I'm guessing that @joevt is correct and the moov resource info is critical for playing back the video. When I transfer the movie to a modern Mac (macOS 13.4 Ventura), I thought that resource forks would be preserved under OSX...

Great! Which version did you download, the .sit file? That's great that it worked on 10.14.6, but I still need a path to convert a bunch of these into something that works on current versions of macOS and Windows.

Here it is again, compressed with StuffIt Lite 3.5. Yes, if all else fails then I think that approach should work. But I feel like I'm missing something obvious... this shouldn't be so hard.

Here also is an HFS disk image with one of the original files, resource fork intact.

Here is one of the videos. I've tried half a dozen online video converters, and they all fail with errors like "could not convert" or "no valid video source". I looked at the original video file in situ under System 7 with Mini vMac, and I noticed there's a 23600 byte moov resource, in addition...

I'm bit stumped. As far as I can tell they're just standard QuickTime MOOV videos from the 90s. Sure it's an old format, but it's not anything super rare. Yet VLC and Handbrake both refuse to touch it. I also tried re-exporting the videos from the HFS disk image again using Mini vMac this time...

Good thought. I'm not much of a video expert. VLC shows both as having 00:00 length, and nothing happens when I try to play them. Possibly the files weren't exported correctly or there's some kind of resource fork confusion happening. I looked at the files in a hex editor to see if there were...

I'm trying to help a school recover some video files from a bunch of old CDs from the mid-to-late 1990s. The files are type 'MooV' and creator 'TVOD', and they play OK using QuickTime Player from MacOS 9.0. But when I export them to a modern Mac (using an emulated OS 9.0 computer from...

You also may need to add a small bias resistor to VCC or GND in order to tell the difference between a true high/low output signal and a signal that's merely floating. For example after you desolder the two resistors, add a 10K resistor between the VGC output and GND. If the signal is still...