[MacDV] MS video codec

[Richard Gilmore]

I'd love to them to F-off when it comes this sort of thing but alas I can't.
They are very backwards here. They've also got a MS developer's license and
they are very much "yes men" when it comes issues regarding MS and if you're
not using an MS product their attitude is too bad for you. They offer no
alternatives to anybody ever. It was tooth and nail fight a couple of years
ago to keep the Macs in this building. You really feel like this is where
the rubber hits the road when it comes to MS's agenda for world domination.
I'll keep the list posted as to how things turn out.

Thanx

Richard 


On 5/6/05 5:05 PM, "Nick Scalise" <nickscalise at mac.com> wrote:

>  
> On Friday, May 06, 2005, at 03:18PM, Richard Gilmore <rgilmor at uwo.ca> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure my superiors will accept a QT file. They want something MS. My
>> boss mentioned a codec for the file format they want. Is there a codec for
>> an MS DV/AVI 720x480? "uncompressed"?
>> 
>> It's supposed to be able to play like this page:
>> 
>> http://www.edu.uwo.ca/research/video.asp?url=coulter.wmv
>> 
>> Which won't play on my Mac. When I told my work it wouldn't play on Mac
>> their response literally was "go watch it on a PC" I'm going to have to do
>> more digging on my end to see if I can output it the way they want or
>> hopefully get them to change to something more cross platform.
> 
> Well, it's too bad you can't tell them to F-off. Cause I just tried it on a PC
> and it won't load with Firefox either.
> 
> One *must* use IE for Windows *only*. Which means they used one of MS's old
> 'java' tools to build the page in MS's - 'embraced and extended' non
> conforming for which they got sued over - java.
> 
> If you have to deal with jerks like that, well, good luck.
> 
> And while I'm ranting, what the hell is MS DV? Isn't DV a standard, or does MS
> embrace and extend the format when it comes off the camera?
> 
> Can't you just send them your edited file as a .dv file and they can open it
> from there? Do these jerks like forcing people to conform to their outdated
> 'standards'?
> 
> Sheesh.
> 
> One last thing, videohelp.com may be able to help at least with explanations
> of codecs, formats etc.
> 
> Again, good luck, you will need it with jerks like that.
> 
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