[OT] Understanding Codecs

[Dan Shafer]

Trevor....

I've been diving deeply into QT technology since this exchange and 
wanted to let you know that I looked closely at the Ensharpen codec. 
Very nice. Easy to see why RR chose to use it for their movies. I'm 
going to buy the encoder and experiment with it. I need to find a 
cleaner way of distributing the decoder for my client's extremely 
unsavvy audience, but I suspect that won't be too hard to figure out. 
You don't happen to have written a Rev function that does this 
semi-automagically, do you? :-D

Dan (who is always looking to steal...er *adapt*...other peoples' code)

On Feb 8, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> The TechSmith Ensharpen codec is really good for screen capture in the 
> tests I have done.

> The problem of course is that the Ensharpen codec doesn't come with 
> QuickTime by default and even though the folks at TechSmith have 
> applied for the component download program it seems that the QuickTime 
> folks aren't doing anything with the program for the time being.  What 
> you can do though is check for the installation of the Ensharpen codec 
> as it will be placed in the QuickTime component directory on the users 
> computer and if it isn't there then display a nice dialog that directs 
> the user to the download site.  Unfortunate but it would work.