Re: Video-for-win?

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From: Lawrence Flowers
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:00

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Phil Read wrote:
> 
> In article <1d4lm35.ibdr7b1xv2iefN@pwomar.demon.co.uk>,
> Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:
> 
> >I suspect Quicktime 3 will do it with no probs so you could get the
> >latest beta from Apple (about 10mb) or do what I do and use a little
> >utility called "AVI to Quicktime Utilty" which creates a small file that
> >links to your AVI or creates a full QT movie, either of which let you
> >use AVIs in Movie Player.
> 
> But don't expect all AVI's to work, if they are compressed with anything
> recent this utility is no good and there is nothing else AFAIK.
> 
There seem to be two such utillities, 'AVI to Quicktime' and another called
'AVI->QT'.  The former is version 1.0 by Microsoft and has converted many
AVI's for me, without fault.  The other worked about twice so I trashed it, no
version or author in  Get Info.


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