RE: FN-FORUM Re: test please... windows...

date posted 16th July 2001 23:26

I thought MPEG was pretty ubiquitous these days I even had it on my old P120
(not that it used to run that brilliant on 2mb of video memory). but it's
surprising how many people don't have MPEG codecs installed at all
particularly on slightly older systems like P200s running Win 95 which I
recently found out when I burnt a disk to give to a friend with a smaller
MPEG format copy of a movie we had been working on.

Generally though you can't guarantee with any video format that everyone
will have the necessary codec or plugin so if it's important and space
permitting it's best to offer a couple of alternative formats.

Still I can't understand why I couldn't view that QuickTime Movie though. I
don't usually have problems viewing QT movies on the Web even if they do
sometimes take a while to download. The only thing I can think of is that it
should have been embedded in a html page rather than given as a direct URL
or perhaps it was in an unsuitable QT codec bearing in mind QT like AVI can
use any of a variety of weird and wonderful compression codecs.

Nick

http://www.artberry.net





> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Zig
> Sent: 16 July 2001 16:58
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Re: test please... windows...
>
>
> Well, I'm wondering if maybe there is a way to autodetect the plugin (like
> flash-generated html code does) and really it can be a hassle for the lazy
> end-users to register their e-mail etc etc... maybe i should just
> use MPEG -
> or is that problematic too...
>
> --
> [EMAIL REMOVED]
> http://www.zig.co.uk
>
> > Simply put the QuickTime button on the same (or previous pages)
> indicating
> > that it uses QuickTime player.
> >
> > Feel free to grab one from my site.
> >
> > http://www.interactivefreelancer.com/images/download_qt.gif
> (Feel free to
> > look at the site while you're there :)
> >
> > And point users to:
> >
> > http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
> >
> > Set target="_blank" and you will not use your visitor
> permanently if they do
> > decide to download the player.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Willie Jordaan
> > Audio-Visual, Multimedia & Interactive Producer.
> > http://www.interactivefreelancer.com
> > Phone: + 44 (0) 7932 087 353 Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 4058
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Zig" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:16 PM
> > Subject: FN-FORUM test please... if using windows... what should I do
> > then,anyone???
> >
> >
> >> well, "The file format is invalid. (Error=8004022F)" seems
> very very badly
> >> phrased if the windows player simply doesn't support quicktime format.
> > Most
> >> everyone who gets a mssg like that will assume I've done
> something wrong.
> >> Should I create an .MPG instead? Still awaiting further responses,
> > please...
> >>
> >> btw it's just a test version of my animation demo
> >>
> >> --
> >> [EMAIL REMOVED]
> >> http://www.zig.co.uk
> >>
> >>
> >>> The latest (? 4+) QT format doesn't work with Media player 7+, if you
> >>> get QuickTime, it'll work fine. Actually QT seems much better
> than Media
> >>> Player 7--shame, I liked MP 6.
> >>>
> >>> Kathy
> >>
> >>>> win 2k ie 6 beta (latest)
> >>>>
> >>>> gives
> >>>>
> >>>> The file format is invalid. (Error=8004022F)
> >>>>
> >>>> dec
> >>
> >>
> >>>> I get an error...
> >>>>
> >>>> The file format is invalid. (Error=8004022F)
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>>
> >>>> Darren Spink
> >>>>
> >>
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