Flip Video Mino Problems

This year my manager sent me the Flip Video Mino for Christmas. If you haven’t seen one yet, check out their website.

The Mino is basically a small video device that can record 60 minutes of video. It’s charged via USB and, if you have an Apple, automatically launches iPhoto when you want to upload footage that you’ve shot. I’m sure there are other ways to go about extracting video into other applications, but when I plugged mine in, as is the case with video shot on my digital camera, iPhoto seems to be the default application.

That said, having downloaded a video that I had planned to post I was confronted with a prompt that told me that I didn’t have the proper Quicktime related software to render the video. I was able to hear the audio fine, just no video. I did a brief search and I’m still baffled as to what I need to download to actually have the video capture play in Quicktime. Video shot on my digital camera works fine, so I’m a bit confused. If you happen to know the answer to this problem I’d be obliged if you could share it with me in the comments.

A final observation – having toyed around with it, this is the sort of thing that one would expect the iPhone to eventually offer in the future.