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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1da0mo8.tzh0d6p1ohuoN@p52.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
> rebecca@astrid.u-net.com (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:
> 
> >I think that it does, but I'm not sure that it allows *any* Mac that can
> >use QT to play avis.  QT MPEG is certainly out for my Performa 475,
> >although it's quite happy playing MPEGs using Sparkle.
> 
> I'm using a 7500 and on that, QT MPEG works fine with QT 2.5 (as does
> Sparkle).

PPC Macs can use QT MPEG, but not 68k ones.  A bit strange, given that
(AFAIK) the bloke who wrote Sparkle was hired by Apple to do QT MPEG.

> But if QT 3 handles AVIs it would be jolly nice. Of course a
> subsidiary question would be; which AVIs? That seems to be a moving target.

Yes.  The avi `standard' is yet another great Microsoft invention to
force you to buy the latest version of the software: it's designed to
use any coding method MS cares to invent.  I *think* that QT3 will
handle pretty much any avi file that was around when it was written
(probably up until beta testing started).

I've read a comment from Apple which pointed out that QT3 can be adapted
to handle any avi; all they need to do is add the codec, and this is
apparently very easy with QT3.

[snip]

Rowland.

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