From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 17 13:13: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.nl (smtp1.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCE137B41A for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (i1415.vwr.wanadoo.nl [194.134.213.141]) by smtp1.wanadoo.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g3HKCr021485; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:12:53 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:12:54 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Heiko Recktenwald Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mpeg 4/divx Message-Id: <20020417221254.12e16dcc.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20020416072951.47d81776.steve@sohara.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:50:49 +0200 (CEST) Heiko Recktenwald wrote: HR> My question was more general. I cant play the ffmpeg mpeg4 output with any HR> MS program, for example. Or what they call msmpeg4 ;-) I haven't tried the ffmpeg (avcodec) output on MS, but I have reports that the mencoder (xvid codec) output works fine - I haven't got any MS ware to try it on :) A colleague of mine has a DVD player that claims to play AVIs burned onto CDs but we haven't been able to make that work yet :) HR> Maybe it is to early to ask for realy platform independent standards. HR> QT 6 and licenses...I dont dig it. Implementing platform independent standards doesn't seem to be high on the priority list for the commercial vendors - they are probably fed up with seeing better implementations in open source ;) -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message