Cross-platform video w/out QT

[Luis]

Convert to movie to Flash? Most browsers have the player already.

Cheers,

Luis.



Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 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?
>