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Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 06/23/06 19:57
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:52:58 GMT, Dave <blachley@aol.com> wrote:
>William Davis wrote:
<snip>
>> The QT codec is robust, completely stable, constantly evolving, supports
>> popular standards like i264 and best of all, used with a modern internet
>> connected Mac system, it's constantly updated seamlessly and free
>> without my lifting a finger to do so.
<snip>
>> But surprise, surprise - we could take the same QT file - simply batch
>> change the header to AVI, THEN the dumb PCs would finally recognize and
>> play them, PLUS Quicktime would look at those SAME files, essentially
>> ignore the AVI headers and also play them without a hitch.
>Totally agree with you here William, especially the part about
>evolving. Its nice to know their's a company actively developing QT as
>opposed to AVI which is kind of this free for all open source type
I don't understand what you just said or how it involves "open
source"? AVI is simply a container format (and oddly enough, one
designed by MS) and can contain any number of types of audio or video
formats. That's the reason you have problems with "codecs", because it
could contain basically any possible type of encoded video or audio.
>system, with no real development at all, and no future that I can see
>either.
There's nothing *to* develop with AVI files, as stated they're just a
container which is supposed to pass a 4CC to the rendering application
- it's up to the rendering app how it invokes the required decode
facility. You must be talking about WMP for this experience, beacuse
I've never had your problems with codecs when using QT or Real Player.
WMP11 has got much improved codec lookup : actually it should apply to
all [windows] versions of the player too, because the back end error
reporting has been modified to tell the user *what* codec is needed.
From there it's only a short web search away to get the right playback
working.
Cheers - Neil
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