Cross-platform video w/out QT

[Richard Gaskin]

One of the products I manage uses a lot of video, and while we've been 
happy with using QT for playback some of our customers' IT departments 
really hate the extra install.

So we're looking to move away from dependence on QT, hoping to find a 
format that will run with the default installation of XP, Vista, and OS 
X.  Extra bonus points if we could also support Win2k, but not necessary.

WMV compresses well with good quality, but requires the user to download 
and install Flip4Mac.

MPEG-4 would be good, but doesn't appear to be supported in XP (am I 
missing something with that?).

MPEG-2 would probably be good, but we'd have to buy a separate component 
from Apple just to try out the export.

MPEG-1 might even be worth looking at, but I can't find any export for 
it in QT Player Pro, only for MPEG-4.

So am I stuck with AVI, or is there some trick to getting MP4 playable 
on XP?

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