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@...> 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 > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
