Pentax Optio s5z video on Quicktime
Category: Hardware
I've been frustrated with being unable to watch the M4S2 video format my Pentax Optio s5z (an otherwise nice camera) produces on my Mac laptop. Several multi-hour long sessions trying to convert it into a format that displays under OSX Quicktime met with failure, until tonight, when I discovered that Casio makes a tiny codec for the Mac for their cameras, which also happens to work for mine.
Woohoo! (and, for the record, the complexity of video formats is pretty insane)
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I have been looking for a solution to this problem for weeks and your blog entry was thrown up by Google today! Problem solved - thanks
Simon
Posted by: Simon Berry | March 19, 2006 2:31 PM
For the record Casio just updated the component to version 1.1 which is a Universal Binary!!!
http://world.casio.com/qv/download/en/avi/dl.html
It should work for any camera with M4S2 format video, it's just a codec that allows you to view this type of video. I can even watch them in iphoto as it imports them!
Posted by: Court K | April 29, 2006 5:40 PM