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Any way to make any quicktime formatted videos play in Windows Media player or Windows Movie maker?

My iPhone records video in .MOV format, which is only quicktime supported.  This means I can't edit it using Windows Movie maker or play it in Windows media player, however it says there is a codec available for it.  However, google hasn't gotten me any good results.  

Is there really any way to play these types of videos in WMP for free?

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Dec 15, 2010. 2:06 PMknexsuperbuilderfreak says:
a s long as you know the format try SUPER or real player convertor
Dec 10, 2010. 5:16 PMyokozuna says:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Convert-QuickTime-to-Microsoft-Movie-Maker-Format/

Alternatively, you can download and install quicktime player, and that will give you the codecs to play it in either of the programs you mentioned.
Dec 11, 2010. 8:33 AMyokozuna says:
Download and install Quicktime Player.  Then it should work fine.

If you can't get that to work, you could also download MPEG Streamclip (freeware) and that will allow you to change it to several other types of files such as .dv that should be compatible.
Dec 10, 2010. 7:58 PMfrollard says:
As of windows 7, windows movie maker natively supports mov files.
Dec 11, 2010. 5:20 PMfrollard says:
I really feel for you :( Short of converting, I'd say its worth the upgrade!
Dec 11, 2010. 8:00 AMOblivitus says:
Find a video converter online.

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