[MacDV] Re: Cross-Platform Compatibility?

[Mark M. Florida]

On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 10:35  AM, Bobbo wrote:

> My buddy is using QTPro, version 5. Here is his comment on the 
> procedure,
> as he tried to play it on a Windows machine:
>
>> Acrobat Reader wouldn't recognize the embedded movie; it
>> prompted for  a "replacement file." When I selected the movie  (.mov)
>> file, it came back with "not a movie file," yet the movie played fine
>> in QT on the PC."

Hmmm... OK.  I thought the issue was that you couldn't play the movie 
by itself on the PC, so you tried to put it in a PDF as kind of a 
"container".  So why does it have to be in a PDF file?  Is it for a 
presentation?  My guess as to why it won't play in a PDF on a PC is 
that QuickTime on the Mac is a system-level extension (allowing 
playback anywhere), where on the PC, it is not integrated into the OS 
the same way.  I guess the same could be true for the Windows Media 
format -- it's part of the OS in Windows, but not on the Mac.  Maybe a 
Windows Media file would work in a PDF on Windows?

>
>> I don't see how you could play a QuickTime movie from a PDF document
>> anyway.
>
> Acrobat allows the embedding of a QT movie in the file, just like any 
> other
> element.
>
> All you have to do is re-save the movie from QuickTime Player
>> (Pro) as a self-contained movie.  I don't think "flattening" has been
>> an issue since QuickTime 4 -- all QuickTime 5 and 6 movies are "flat"
>> in the first place, and should not require any special "flattening" to
>> be made cross-platform.
>>
>> - Mark
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