More about audio-video

[Robert Sneidar]

Hush! You are not implying Microsoft would develop a proprietary codec that only their player could use?? What self respecting corporation would even think of such a thing???

Bob


On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> J. Landman Gay <jacque at ...> writes:
> 
>> In the Media Player app itself, all the above formats play perfectly. I 
>> did not need to download any extra codecs, not even for .mov files.
> 
> It gets worse. You can't rely on just the file extension.
> 
> The other day I pulled down a GoToMeeting archive as a .wmv file and VLC, my
> go-to media player, wouldn't play it. Launched it in the Dreaded Windows Media
> Player and it played just fine. The .wmv file was encoded in a format I've never
> heard of before (Gsomething24, if I remember correctly), and it seems that only
> the DWMP has the decoder built in.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> 
> 
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