[MacDV] QuickTime on Windows

[Alex]

Hi Steve

On a 2GHz P4 with WinXP SP1 in and old Dell Dimension (ick!) on a 512k 
link in London.
Running fine here
Might think of making the background just off black, would make the 
white text more readable.

Alex


On 14 Mar 2005, at 14:25, Steve Robertson wrote:

>
> I'm trying to get a business off the ground that relies heavily on 
> QuickTime movies - both as progressive downloads from web sites, 
> clickable links in e-mails, and higher resolution versions distributed 
> on CD-R. I create the movies on a Mac, then test them on a Pentium II, 
> 350 Mhz Windows 98 machine. Other QuickTime movies of mine have been 
> played on many Windows machines - including those running XP. I 
> deliberately avoided MP4, so that the video would play with older 
> versions of the QuickTime Player - using Sorenson 3 instead.
>
> Now that it's really important for these QuickTime movies to work 
> smoothly on Windows, my first prospective client tells me she can't 
> get the movie to play no matter what she tries. She has a relatively 
> new computer running XP and a DSL line. She claims to have downloaded 
> the QuickTime Player from Apple and installed it, but I was not there 
> in person to verify that she installed it properly.
>
> I think that we should conduct an informal survey to try to pinpoint 
> some of the problems that Windows users might have with QuickTime. 
> Burn one of your QuickTime movies on a CD-R, then make the rounds of 
> your non-geek friends who insist on using only Windows and see how 
> many of them have a problem. Or e-mail this link to a few non-geek 
> Windows users with broadband and ask them to install the QuickTime 
> Player and try to view it:
>
> http://www.ram-video.com/ReelEstate/BonnieCastleSt.mov
>
> Also tell us about any problems you've run across mixing QuickTime and 
> Windows.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve R.
>
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