OT- Quicktime Failure on Windows -- Testers needed!

Sivakatirswami katir at hindu.org
Sun Jan 29 15:49:56 EST 2006


Great... thanks.   Such a great support group. It could have taken be  
literally days to get to this...

I'm not sure we will be able to get users to do more than upgrade  
Quicktime, if H.264 is not natively supported we'll need to abandon  
that codec for now. I hesitate to include a "sniffer" in my apps that  
must also check for the presence of an additional component... if not  
found, require this installation before anyone can proceed. We're  
already "over the top" in terms of requiring users to install the  
lastest Acrobat and Quicktime. But these are standard enough we think  
the resistance will be low....but telling them to go to "free- 
codecs.com" and install yet another widget, is not going to work for  
"naive" users who barely know more than using email and surfing in IE.

OK so, then, to save me hours and hours of compression time, (every  
test of an export takes 10-15 minutes, even on a G5) and then days of  
turn around with my Windows beta group: I come begging for more:

What "standard codec"  would you all recommend that will "work out of  
the box" on Windows that is best in terms of balance quality and file  
size?

Pierre, does 3ivXD4 work on Windows?

Sivakatirswami





On Jan 29, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote:

> While H.264 is mainly usable with G5 machines, 3ivXD4 is best  
> suited to serve very correct standard MP4 contents to G3 and G4 end- 
> users machines.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Le 29 janv. 06 à 19:01, Mark Wieder a écrit :
>
>
>> Sivakatirswami-
>>
>> Saturday, January 28, 2006, 10:57:26 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Quicktime Movie to Movie:
>>> Compression H.264, audio to AICC, 15 fps, keys every 75.
>>>
>>
>> QuickTime pre-version 7 doesn't support H.264 natively. To handle
>> this, download the free H.264 codec and install it on the Windows
>> machine. This saved some otherwise unexplainable headaches for me.
>>
>> http://www.free-codecs.com/download/x264_Video_Codec.htm
>>
>> ...or encode the video using one of the supported codecs...
>>
>> -- 
>> -Mark Wieder
>>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>>
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