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It is annoying and frustrating that a great number of systems out
there are unable to view Quicktime movies on the web without
having to download the free QT player. Seriously, what percentage of
folks are going to go to the Apple site, fill out the form, uncheck
the "send spam" box, and wait to download the 10 MB player? Seriously.
The quality for the file size of QT .mov over MPEG 1 is astounding;
and MPEG 4 seems even more so. But it seems you have to have QT
in order to view MPEG 4. Too bad...
I put a short movie up on my web host, and it wouldn't play from
a machine AT THE APPLE STORE. If that's not incompatibilty, I don't
know what is. (!)
So the question is: When will MPEG 4 or even QT .mov be far-reaching
enough to choose it over the clearly inferior MPEG 1, which seems
to be useable on just about every GUI machine out there?
Pigeon
It is annoying and frustrating that a great number of systems out
there are unable to view Quicktime movies on the web without
having to download the free QT player. Seriously, what percentage of
folks are going to go to the Apple site, fill out the form, uncheck
the "send spam" box, and wait to download the 10 MB player? Seriously.
The quality for the file size of QT .mov over MPEG 1 is astounding;
and MPEG 4 seems even more so. But it seems you have to have QT
in order to view MPEG 4. Too bad...
I put a short movie up on my web host, and it wouldn't play from
a machine AT THE APPLE STORE. If that's not incompatibilty, I don't
know what is. (!)
So the question is: When will MPEG 4 or even QT .mov be far-reaching
enough to choose it over the clearly inferior MPEG 1, which seems
to be useable on just about every GUI machine out there?
Pigeon