OT- Quicktime Failure on Windows -- Testers needed!

[Pierre Sahores]

Le 29 janv. 06 à 21:49, Sivakatirswami a écrit :

> 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?

Yes and, because it's seen by QT as a standard MP4 encoder, it don't  
need any end-users extra component installation.

Best,
>
> Sivakatirswami

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Pierre Sahores
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