Re: Playing an AVI

ray <datasmog@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So what's all that about? Can one expect Flip4Mac to be unable to
handle that encoding? If not, is there any MacOS X way to play such a
file? And if not, do many people give a damn?

Flip4Mac only handles WMV files - Windows Media stuff. Intel Indeo is
one of those codecs that just don't seem to be available on OSX - not
even Perian will play it.

Bit of a bugger.

It does point up the danger of keeping important data in a proprietary
format that in all probability won't be readable in future.

Yep.

Not
suggesting the video in question is vital to Rowlands pension plan

*Definitely* not. It was one that I cannot recall downloading, but
looking at it, I clearly only did so out of morbid curiosity. At least,
if that wasn't my reason, I'm a bit worried about myself.

but
you get the drift.

All the text documents that I generate are ASCII or Unicode.

If I want formatted text output, I use TeX.

If it's graphics, I use TIFF or PNG or JPEG, depending.

I don't do video.

I'm not going to be caught out by an orphaned file format, not me.

Rowland.

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