Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:36:36 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: dimitri <thdimi@telehorizon.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QuickTime ?? Message-ID: <3A6C5383.BBA21026@mitre.org> References: <980154569.3a6bf8c9a8b78@webmail.telehorizon.com> <20010122041738.B20540@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20010122031356.B84737@citusc17.usc.edu> <980164259.3a6c1ea3d3ba7@webmail.telehorizon.com>
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dimitri wrote: > > FreeBSD is a great operating system, a capable friend when you need to do > serious stuff like setting up a lan or running a server.. > > But sometimes i really miss all these silly, little things like watching a > movie trailer from the internet... Well, it's not like there is any lack of trying to get Sorenson/Apple to release the codec (even in binary form) to FreeBSD/Linux, but they simply do not want to give up that codec. Even M$ Media Player can't handle those Sorenson Quicktimes (which is VERY annoying, because the windows Quicktime client tends to crash my machine, and if M$ Media Player supported it, avifile would support it.) It's kindof odd, it used to be that I loved seeing .mov extensions on files, because the Quicktime format was open and there were all kinds of great players for them, even under FreeBSD. .avis were a nightmare of different unsupported Indeo codecs that sometimes didn't even work with the correct codec installed. Then, gradually, this all reversed and nowadays the .mpgs and .avis work and the .movs don't. What's more, with the advent of Divx ;-) those .avi files frequntly look better than the .movs at a significantly lower bitrate. Dang, more ranting, I've gotta stop this... -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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