In article <web.40dca65c932f7fd23e7b70250@news.povray.org> , "tpwaterh" 
<tpw### [at] alumniuwaterlooca> wrote:

> When I use POV-Ray to render an animation into a QuickTime file, the movie
> comes out just fine and I can play it in QuickTime Player with no problems.
>  BUT - if I then scp the file to my website and download it in Safari, I
> get an error message from QuickTime - "Could not open the file ... because

POV-Ray is not meant to create QuickTime files for web display directly.  It
is meant to create QuickTime movie files for easy post-processing.  The
QuickTime movie output is only useful if you export with a high-quality
codec and then compress the files for web streaming later on.

> How is this possible?  What's going on?

Use the QuickTime Player File menu Export option.  Please read the QuickTime
documentation how to create web-ready QuickTime movie files.

    Thorsten

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