[528] in winnt
Re: .MOV to .MPEG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M Maguire)
Wed Aug 16 14:00:14 2000
Message-Id: <200008161759.NAA25050@bassas.mit.edu>
To: Albert Willis <awillis@MIT.EDU>
cc: ntpartners@MIT.EDU, itpartners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:29:58 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:59:57 -0400
From: Sean M Maguire <sleeper@MIT.EDU>
Quicktime movies cannot be viewed by Linux or Unix clients. MPG is a much
better idea for heterogeneous environments at the moment.
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Sean Maguire
Linux Administrator, Computer Facility
MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science
ph: 452-4081
e-mail: sleeper@mit.edu
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In message <v04220800b5c067bf5b71@[18.152.1.89]>, Albert Willis wrote:
>At 9:17 AM -0400 8/16/2000, Dave Broderick wrote:
>>We got this digital camera, and we love it, but it stores short
>>movie clips as .MOV files. We feel that more browsers will accept
>>mpeg's than mov's (we can't expect everyone to have Quicktime).
>>
>>Is there a simple software/shareware tool out there that will
>>convert .mov to .mpg files.
>>
>>That would make this camera acceptable to us. It's optical features
>>are great, and we'd like to keep it.
>>
>>thanks
>
>Well, over 50 million copies of QuickTime have been downloaded from
>Apple's web site. Anyone who has viewed a movie trailer on the web
>already has QuickTime. Another advantage is that you can use a free
>or cheap QuickTime editor to make changes to the movies that you
>capture. QuickTime Pro for the Mac or Windows is $29 from Apple. For
>Macs, iMove 1.0.3 is free.
>
>QuickTime also works great on Windows machines, incase you were wondering.
>
>Just to be clear, it's not a matter of a browser accepting a MPEG
>file or a QuickTime movie, since the browser doesn't really care. All
>someone would have to do is install the QuickTime player, which is no
>big deal. (If someone didn't already have software to play a MPEG,
>they'd have to do the same thing anyway.)
>
>In summary, if I were you, I'd just stick with QuickTime, since
>that'll make your life easier.
>
> -- Al
>
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