.MOV to a big screen

wallbash

Have a few short clips . filmed on an Olympic camera , in .mov . Need ( well wish ) to view on my tv rather than the PC .
Have a Panasonic large flat screen that has a SD card input. Manual says the tv will read from card AVCHD and MPEG 2
Have tried

AVS video converter
Win X HD
WNX
Media Converter8

But tv not reading .

Any one has a favourite converter ? would like to download a free prog but would pay if had to

The movie clips are fine on the PC

TIA

wallbash

No .

Reads a SD card and we view photo's

Was going to add , would it be easier to convert and drop on to a DVD , then play thru dvd player??

DigForVictory

Can you jack the camera into your TV? My Olympus came with cables to do this. Can't say it's Ideal, but it works.

wallbash

DigForVictory wrote: »

Can you jack the camera into your TV? My Olympus came with cables to do this. Can't say it's Ideal, but it works.

If I had the camera! Spent last Thursday on a 60th Birthday trip , day caving . The instructor had the Olympus and after the event gave me the SD card
The MOV files copied from SD card to PC and look wonderful.
But I would love to see them on the large screen

My Panasonic TX P50X20B
Have a DVD player ( with a USB plug) and a Virgin Media Box

Is there a way to hook a laptop to a fairly modern TV , have a HDMI free slot

Johnmcl7

What are you converting the files to exactly?

The software I'd recommend is the following:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp4cam2avi/

It doesn't actually convert the video files instead it changes the container from .mov to .avi which means it's fairly quick and there's no loss of quality. If your TV doesn't read the resulting file you should still find it a lot easier to work with than the original mov file. I've tried this with Panasonic mov files and it works well, from what I remember the Olympus cameras tended to use a similar codec within the mov container.

John

custardy

wallbash wrote: »

If I had the camera! Spent last Thursday on a 60th Birthday trip , day caving . The instructor had the Olympus and after the event gave me the SD card
The MOV files copied from SD card to PC and look wonderful.
But I would love to see them on the large screen

My Panasonic TX P50X20B
Have a DVD player ( with a USB plug) and a Virgin Media Box

Is there a way to hook a laptop to a fairly modern TV , have a HDMI free slot

well the question is does the laptop have HDMI

Jivesinger

Just a thought - could it be the SD card itself?

My old laptop has an SD slot, and will happily read SD cards of 1GB or so, but faced with the newer SDHC cards which are physically the same shape and size (and so fit the slot) but have bigger capacities and presumably different internally, it can't read them.

Whatever you do, make sure you take backup copies of the original files, and make copies to do any conversion, as you don't want to lose the originals!

wallbash

What are you converting the files to exactly?

Anything that works?

well the question is does the laptop have HDMI

No , had hope daughters much newer models plus tablet's might have one

the newer SDHC cards which are physically the same shape and size (and so fit the slot)

Will check that out , yes the orig is an SDHC . maybe the tv will only read SD ( be a bit miffed if I have missed such an easy answer)

re you take backup copies of the original files

Good advice , have the files on the orig and on three PC 's

Johnmcl7

wallbash wrote: »

Anything that works?

You've mentioned several pieces of software that you've used to convert the videos but that doesn't really help, what codecs and output files are you producing?

I would be surprised if the TV doesn't support SDHC as Panasonic were one of the early adopters of this format and there wouldn't be much point supporting AVCHD (a codec for HD video) but not SDHC .

John

wallbash

what codecs and output files are you producing?

Trying first of all to convert to MPEG 2

But now trying with DVD creator to produce a......dvd!
Will have to have a dvd in the long term for playing .

Longer term plan is a small ( free) website ....caving has been on my bucket list for many years.

wallbash

Success.
Used Aimesoft DVD creator , burned a disk and watched it on the big screen .
Underground for five hours and its taken me longer to get a working dvd.
Not finished as the tile was rubbish and the movie files were in the wrong order , but wallbash can now go to bed happy .

Thanks to all who read my tale and offered advice.