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I found an interesting item in the "Trends" section of the latest PC Magazine.
This describes Video for Windows, which is Microsoft's answer to QuickTime.

It's just a half-page article, but here are some of the important points:

* Open technology. Includes standard codecs for Indeo (software implementation
  of Intel's DVI) and run-length-compressed movies. Run Length Encoding
  format is intended for playback on lower-end machines (such as consumer
  systems), Indeo for more powerful ones.
* Includes a new "revamped-for-video" Media Control Interface (MCI). Adds
  OLE server capabilities to allow pasting of video sequences into other
  documents.
* Includes sound/video synchronization that is "every bit as good as Apple's".
* Has some capability for importing QuickTime movies.
* AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is supposedly the name of the file format.
* Includes VidEdit (editing) and VidCap (capture) and other tools.

It's supposed to be shipping sometime this month, for US$199.

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