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How to Play Kodak EasyShare Videos

"I recently imported some photos/videos from my Kodak Easyshare camera on to my new Inspiron computer complete with Windows Vista Premium - I can view the photos but not the videos - can you help?"

Kodak digital cameras record movies in the QuickTime MOV format. The easiest way to play back these files is with Apple's QuickTime software, which is available as a free download from Apple either as a standalone application or as part of the iTunes download.

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If you want to edit these movie files in Windows Movie Maker or most of the other consumer editing applications available for Windows, you'll need to convert the MOV files to AVI or some other format compatible.

Convert MOV to AVI

How do I convert a QuickTime MOV file to AVI?

The QuickTime MOV format is the video output format for many digital still cameras. MOV is also becoming very popular as the distribution format for video bloggers; primarily because many video bloggers are also Mac users. If you want to edit your MOV files in Windows Movie Maker or playback video blogs on one of the many portable video players from companies like Creative and Archos, it becomes necessary to convert those files to a compatible format. In most cases, converting to AVI is the quickest intermediate step for converting MOV to something portable to applications and portable devices.

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Embedding QuickTime to Launch External Player

While it looks slick to publish your QuickTime movie embedded in a Web page, the size of the movie will potentially slow page load times. One way to get around this is to create a poster movie which launches the QuickTime player in the external QuickTime Player application when clicked. The image displays just like it would if you were embedding the movie to play in the browser, but you avoid the wait by keeping the file size smaller. Opening the QuickTime Player on the desktop also eliminates some of the confusion about how the player works.

Just like the example on embedding the QuickTime Player in your Web site or blog page, the code for launching the external player also gets pasted in the <body> of your page or blog post so it displays properly when you serve the video. There are two main differences for the code to launch QuickTime Player in an external browser. Notice this time, your src value has a href value, which tells the player to launch something else when clicked. The other change is the addition of a target value of quicktimeplayer which tells the embedded file to launch the external player when clicked.

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Embedding QuickTime MOV

Publishing QuickTime MOV files for people to view takes one of several forms. The simplest way to share a QuickTime movie is to simply upload the file to your hosting provider and create a link to the file. People clicking the link will either save your movie to their computer or wait for QuickTime to open and play the movie back. While this is the easiest way to share a QuickTime movie, it's not the most elegant way to do it because some viewers still don't understand how to watch a movie on the Web without play controls right their helping them out.

A better alternative is to embed the MOV file in you Web page. This is possible whether you are linking to the file from a blog or from a corporate video site. The process of embedding the movie is the same for virtually every circumstance. There are a few optional configurations, but the basics will get you started.

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