playing videos from camera

[500dude]

I've been trying to play video that I've taken with my digital camera, however my PPC can't run the video. When I download the video to my computer it plays with quicktime. I checked out quicktimes website to see if there's a PPC version but it seems there's not. Does anyone know ifs there's a quicktime download for the PPC or any other way to play the video. Could I use Media Encoder to make it work? thanx

PQV works with most or all AVI or MOV files (motion JPEG videos) generated by digital cameras. I've heard that PQV isn't 'VGA-aware', but at 240x320 QVGA resolution it works great for me. Plays stuff from my wife's Pentax, my brother's Canon, and my sister-in-law's Nikon, with sound, fullscreen and rotated 90°. Still my favourite image viewer.

Other than that, I've read that QuickTime Pro (around $50) will allow conversions to MPEG. And of course TMPGEncoder or WMEncoder work fine too, but only with AVI, not MOV types.

Another option is the multi-format player for PPC called PictPocketCinema. I found that it played some, but not all Quicktime types, and did some other types of files as well. Not worth the cash, in my opinion.