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Posted by David McCall on 04/22/06 14:39
"Martin Heffels" <mot@sneeuw.nl> wrote in message
news:gmak425knd4carn1kvunol2f5ipnjj4ubm@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:49:24 GMT, "David McCall"
> <david.mccall@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>>Good point. I thought about that right after made the post.
>>The 1s and 0s may be fine, but if you don't have the right
>>codec, then you would be screwed. An example of that is
>>the proprietary MJPEG files that my Matrox Digisuite creates.
>>If you try to open them on a computer that doesn't have
>>their codec, they are not readable.
>
> You picked a bad sample, as Matrox has a software version of all their
> codecs, which doesn't require the specific Matrox-hardware.
>
> Software codecs will be around for much longer, as long as somebody ports
> them to a newer version of the operating system. With very proprietary
> software, this can be a problem of course, but there are plenty of people
> skilled in reverse-engineering software.
>
Yes, I know there is a software codec for the Matrox MJPEG
that we use on the Digisuite, but I don't trust Matrox to keep
it up to date and available. I know I'm not likely to hire someone
to reverse engineer the codec if I loose it. Nothing I have ever
done is of enough value to justify the expense. Perhaps not the
best of examples, but not a total looser either :-)
>>Analog, on the other hand, only represents a varying voltage
>>run it at the right speed and your audio or video should work.
>>It might look or sound like shit, but you should be able to
>>extract some of the information.
>
> So, instead of printing all the 1's and 0's to paper, it's better to
> archive on film.
>
1s and 0s on paper might be good if you cared enough to encode
it that way, but I won't. In fact, I won't even bother with doing it to
film.
Once they become unreadable, that will probably be the end of it.
David
> cheers
>
> -martin-
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