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Posted by doc on 07/16/06 17:02
Robust it is . . it's so heavy duty our mac couldn't handle the video. It
played the audio and we got to listen to some of our online d/l's but as far
as see them, we'd been better to turn on a PC and watch the vid using the M$
Windows Media link.
You say I'm the first in a decade? Well, our pals in Akron had the same
problem with their Macs too. So, that's TWO strikes on TWO already and in
my book that's an OUT! That's why we got rid of the things.
DrD
"William Davis" <davisbill@mac.com> wrote in message
news:davisbill-A66EAC.12591922062006@news.west.cox.net...
> In article <tZxmg.5443$x6.1196@trndny05>, "doc" <doc@anywhere.com>
> wrote:
>
>> nobody likes QT. we even had fits with quicktime with our macs.
>>
>> drd
>
> Two strikes today, "doc."
>
> Wow, I've got to tell you you're are the ONLY guy I've ever known who
> has had ANY problem with Quicktime running on a Mac for about a decade
> now!
>
> Many knowledgeable working professionals, myself included, think it's
> great simply because we NEVER have to think about it.
>
>
> 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.
>
> Want more perspective? Here's a personal experience for you.
>
> A few months ago, I produced an instructional DVD for sale. The product
> includes 133 DV clips that needed to run on BOTH PCs and MACs.
>
> These were "plain vanilla" DV files, no extra compression or encoding.
>
> I thought we were going to have to provide BOTH AVI and Quicktime files
> for complete customer target machine compatibility - but after extensive
> testing I got a surprise.
>
> None of the "low level" PC machines we tested it with could play the QT
> file without jumping through download QT for PC hoops.
>
> 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.
>
> In other words, the PCs file handling wasn't sophisticated enough to
> look beyond the header info - while the Macs looked at the FILE itself
> rather than just the header code - and determined that it could play the
> files just fine.
>
> Yet another modest score for simple, seamless "Apple" software.
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