Re: Way cool movie about Symbolics' Graphics Suite from 1987

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:42:18 -0500, George Neuner <gneuner2/@/comcast.net> tried
to confuse everyone with this message:

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:16:40 +0100, Rainer Joswig <joswig@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <vabuj3h6389krd251bnp0ann99uja56rvp@xxxxxxx>,
George Neuner <gneuner2/@/comcast.net> wrote:

A lot of Google videos are MP4. The only thing I know of that plays
them is Quicktime.

H.264 is a standard encoder. It is widely used because of its
usable video quality at high compression rates,

I know its a standard format.


Lots of video players will play that.

Not out of the box on Windows which is my primary platform. I admit
that I don't yet have Media Player 11 (which does handle it) because
MP11 crashes some of my important machines, but of MP10 and the other
well known players, only Quicktime handles MP4.


VLC plays it.

Search on almost any audio or video format and you'll find a bunch of
never-heard-of-'em players that purport to handle it. I used to have
3 audio players and about a dozen video players. But as time went on
and they became more complicated, I found many of them didn't play
well with others. Then monsters like Media Player and Quicktime
started supporting most of the popular formats in a single player.

I'd like to have one player that just handles everything well. I'll
take a look at VLC, but I'm not getting my hopes up. I've got MP10
with the whole codec pack, Quicktime 7, RealPlayer 10, Flash 9, Divx
6.5 ... and I still occasionally encounter stuff I can't play. I
think it's ridiculous that there are so many formats actually in use.

VLC and mplayer (not to be confused with Windows Media Player or Media Player
Classic) will play 99% of videos. You should really uninstall all those
proprietary players you mentioned and check those out. I use Media Player
Classic for most of the videos, but if it can't play something, I resort to VLC
and/or mplayer. The only problem with those is their horrible interfaces.

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