Hi all:
I was sent a movie file from France that came in as a v2 file. I use several excellent converters, but two don't recognize it and the third program converts all the way to 98% before the computer crashes.

MacBookPro
Dual Intel 2.16
2 GB Memory
OS X 10.6.8

I can't find decent information about the v2 format. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Stan

V2 sounds suspiciously like version 2. What codec does the program that can open it report it to be? I mean, is it called filename.v2? Or does something else tell you the codec is called v2?

As far as I know there is no such thing as a v2 format. Try adding .mov on the end and see if it opens with Quicktime 7...then do a "Command/I" to get the file info.

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

...could be this:

[en.wikipedia.org]

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Thank you all for the information. After the seventh try I was able to convert the file. It came in as a v2 but when successfully converted, it ended up as a filenamev2.mov. Strange, but it turned out OK. In reality, I think the crashing was because these MacBookPro Intel machines get very very hot and shut down or crash when they reach a certain temperature. I waited until the morning when the computer was cold and did the conversion first, before it could heat up, and it went through. Thank you all for the advice.
Stan