QuickTime and the Pocket PC are not a good match.
QT uses mainly the older and proprietary Sorenson Video codecs (codec: compressor/decompressor, a software component used to translate video or audio between its uncompressed form and the compressed form in which it is stored) whose specs Apple kept secret so they had to be reverse-engineered for the ffmpeg project. Pirates of Silicon Valley in reverse… As of today support for the Quicktime codecs has yet to emerge with any player, even the super-versatile TCPMP.
As a workaround you might have to convert your .mov files into the likes of MPEG-4 with the SUPER app mentioned yesterday (which works fine in spite of my rant). To get the accompanying AAC sound decoded you will need the pertinent TCPMP plugin from here. Thanks to the “Don’t be Evil” mantra the latest Sorenson codecs (Sorenson Spark/H.263) as used by YouTube and other web video sources couldn’t be kept secret as in the bad old days. To play such encoded videos you just need this TCPMP plugin. Hope it helps.
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