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Hi all....I’m also stuck with VQC2 and I did what you said...but it seems that only VQC1 was installed...is that bacause I have Windows Vista?

Any advice will be truly appreciated

Thank you

Wow, the link still works!!!
http://www.geocities.com/smbaker01/VQC.html

Thanks SMB!

I only have this one 10 second video file.
(Several years back, 2000' on a PII with the kodak 325)

I find this will play on my P3 with XP, using WMP Real and GOM (reads as an avi file), but it won’t play on Quicktime or VLC.


Here’s the question.
Is there a free Video Converter that will take the AVI and convert it to a Mpeg or something?

Here’s the problem.
I downloaded and tried “Any Video Converter”, but it didn’t work.
I was able to convert an AVI “photo” taken back then to a WMV though.
But again, the movie clip shows up as a VQC1.

I have just picked up a new lowend laptop (Dell Studio 15 with Vista).
I’d like to transfer and share this video to my family without having to give a codec to everyone on their various systems.

Thanks for any input!

Ohhhhhh man!

I recorded a video years ago of my children dancing to a song. I used a super cheap “TwinkleCam” (it was good enough at the time).

When I upgraded my camera I gave the TwinkleCam to a friend. He soon reported troubles with it and tossed it... and the setup CD... in the trash!

When I returned to my video files... YIKES! They wouldn’t play! I’ve installed some TwinkleCam drivers I’ve found... but the files still would not play.

So: thanks for these codecs, dudes!!! I just plugged it in and: Boom! my kids from 5 years ago are jumping around like silly imps. My wife’ll be brought to tears when she sees this!

Thanks again!!

BobSongs

fantastic link still works and I can now finally view and convert my old videos.

my camera was an old viewquest supplied by time computers years ago, oval with a green button on top - camera long since lost

make sure you convert them to normal mpg before this codec gets lost forever

Gman88 you rock!!!

waited years and years for this dam codec!!!! finally!

thankyou!

— edited : one thank you is enough... —

Hi again.
Sorry I did not put the link in my first post, and you went to all that trouble.

For anyone else interested, you can get the VQC1 and VQC2 codec from

http://www.geocities.com/smbaker01/VQC.html

I recommend my download over Gman88’s only because the .inf file is a bit nicer. I totally rewrote it to take out the camera driver code, so it should not mess up your system, or give “Unknown Device” garbage. I tested the uninstall on Win2k and WinXP a while back and it seems to work correctly.

But, both downloads have the goods (VQdecode.dll), and that is all that matters.

If you want to, send me an email letting me know if you download the codec. I wont take it down if people are actually finding it and using it.

BTW, I’m not an advocate of VQC2, I just got stuck with it just like everyone else!

Hey thanks man!!!
Sorry bout that checkbox, i didn’t see him...

You have to check the little box that says “Allow other people to see my email address” - it looks like SMB’s topic disappeared, or maybe I just didn’t go far enough into old pages. But anyway, here is the file:

http://www.geocities.com/tri8gman/VQC.zip

Included files(40k): VQC.inf, Vqdecode.dll, and readme.txt

BE SURE TO SYSTEM RESTORE AFTER YOU CONVERT YOUR VIDEOS(that is, make a restore point manually before trying the installation)

Leaving this installed(not restoring after conversion) will very likely result in driver, registry, and other nasty system problems.

Since it’s VQdecode.dll, it should do both 1 & 2.

Hey Gman88, can U send me that zip file to my e-mail?
Thanks a lot...

I just found SMB’s other topic... crap.

Oh well - I did the same exact thing.