On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, James Pullman wrote: jpullm >It's very hard to tell people NOT to use a CODEC that's absolutely beautiful to behold. It looks better then MPEG (which is non-free anyway) and is a bootload smaller, better then AVI by a longshot, better then basically anything. And as far as any author cares, it's free (beer). Because MacOS and Win9x/NT can view it, and that's basically the Desktop market there. i must be blind then cuz i see NOTHING special about their codecs, MPEG-1 is great, and Indeo 5.0 is also good..i can see no difference. but at the same time i see no difference between a VideoCD(Mpeg1) and DVD (Mpeg2)
jpullm >The Star Wars trailers looked STUNNING on QT4, and other codecs can't hold a candle to it. That's why I suggest bugging Apple. MPEG-1 is getting old. And we don't even have MPEG-2 support either. So rather then just live with it, lets go make some noise. Get some binary implementations for ELF or whatever. again, i watched that thing tons of times and didnt see anything special about it. im perfectly happy that mpeg1 can reduce a 1GB AVI to about 30MB. even with 256bit assisted videoplayback (Imagine 128 Series 2 4MB) the star wars trailer was no more impressive then any other trailer at that resolution. other then the fact it caused massive video artifacts on my machine(see http://www.aphroland.org/screenshots/Starwars-Quicktime3-2.jpg i must've named it wrong when i made it) i talked to my friend who has a 133Mhz Powermac (who claims its about the same as a P200 said the trailer was unplayable on his mac. it was even close to dropping frames on my k6-2 366(when maximized). too much compression used in it, not worth the extra processing power. id much rather use a few extra megs of hd space and have cpu util be 50% lower. one thing i would like to understand is what apple is doing by restricting who uses their codec. i mean..how does it hurt them if other people use it for decoding purposes? i can only imagine it helping the population that uses QT increase. even under win* (shiver) intel codecs and mpeg codecs are that, codecs that other players can use..QT4 ..keeps everything internal. looks to me like everything else they get involved in they are scared of a little competition (killing off the clones, restricting hardware info so beOS cant run on their stuff, preventing their G3 boards from being upgraded to G4 via bios "updates"..the list goes on.) intel has (had?) a nifty tool that converted AVI -> QT and back(free) but it doesnt work with most of the new (past 2-3 years) codecs from QT. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:15am up 87 days, 18:48, 2 users, load average: 1.45, 1.55, 1.54
