Thanks Adrian, I have purchased QT pro twice, I probably only have v6 at the moment, I'll take a look. I did feel it was kind of extortion, though, especially the fact that there's no upgrade path AFAIK, only pay the same price as other losers that are first time buyers.
>From the rest of what you say, I'm going to guess that maybe my PC is finding h264 in some el-cheapo or freeware format on my system (one downloads millions of these codecs in a hurry, and then I forget they're there) I just found the h264 setting on QT pro - I had v7, so I'm making some tests now. Thanks again to all, /r