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Todd Brown

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Oct 7, 2005, 3:21:08 PM10/7/05
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I'm using QuickTime Pro 7 to create moviews that will be embedded in web
pages. My focus is on making the movies accessable to the largest
number of people. I was pleased with the compression offered by H.264,
but I quickly realized that only people with QT7 could view it, which is
too restrictive.

The problem I quickly ran up against is that I have been unable to find
these compression formats described anywhere. I have scoured the
QuickTime documentation on the Apple developer site, and I have have
wasted too much time seraching the internet for this information. I
just want to know what the deal with these formats is, and how
"universal" they are.

Please, if anyone knows of such a resource, or knows this information
thsemselves, let me know. I'm dyin' here.

Cheers,
Todd

Kaveh

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Oct 7, 2005, 6:15:07 PM10/7/05
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Todd Brown <tbr...@pobox.com> wrote:

> Please, if anyone knows of such a resource, or knows this information
> thsemselves, let me know. I'm dyin' here.

Don't die, Todd. Do a google search instead. ;-)

Here's a start:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/tbuehler/video/codecs/quicktime.html

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Kaveh

Todd Brown

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Oct 7, 2005, 9:26:43 PM10/7/05
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Thanks, Kaveh, that site is a tremendous help. It still doesn't list
all of the delivery codecs that are supported by QT but it's a good
start. Oh, and I *did* do a Google search; many of them actually. I'm
surprised I didn't find this site. Thanks!

Cheers,
T

Heiko Recktenwald

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Oct 10, 2005, 7:12:05 AM10/10/05
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QT is rather simple, just get QT pro and export to MPEG 4, which is a
vendor and platform independent "standard", on the level of the medium
itself, which does not help you very much.
But you could feed that bla.mp4 into Flash (with expensiv software)
Or display it with JAVA.

H.

AJ

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Oct 11, 2005, 12:44:37 AM10/11/05
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MPEG1 is as universal as you can get.
anything else is hit-n-miss :(

Heiko Recktenwald

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Oct 11, 2005, 5:42:11 AM10/11/05
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AJ wrote:
> MPEG1 is as universal as you can get.
> anything else is hit-n-miss :(
>
And it is not so bad ;-)

If you have the bandwidth.


H.

mpegurl.blog.de

Heiko Recktenwald

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Oct 12, 2005, 8:58:09 AM10/12/05
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Btw,

>> MPEG1 is as universal as you can get.
>> anything else is hit-n-miss :(


You cant export to MPEG 1 Video with QT Pro!

H.

incred1

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Oct 21, 2005, 2:03:41 PM10/21/05
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