[Ti] 3GPP

[Fred]

> From: "Dr. Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's Titanium computers."
> <titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:17:05 +0300
> To: John McGibney <ensignjd at optonline.net>
> Cc: "A place to discuss Apple's Titanium computers."
> <titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] 3GPP
> At 10:07 -0400 26/4/05, John McGibney wrote:
>> According to Apple QT 6.5 should play these files.
>> <http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/>
>> <http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/3gpp/>
>> 
>> Maybe you need an additional plugin for QuickTime. Launch System Prefs,
>> select QuickTime, select additional updates and see what pops up.
>> 
>> John
> 
> Here in Saudi Arabia it always says that the QT server is busy....
> 
> T.

Trevor

As you know, the internet controls there in Saudi Arabia are set to limit
site access and probably contribute to this problem for you.  As in China,
where content controls keep pace with the rapid internet growth, they are
very sophisticated and can filter very carefully, but then again even
Google's Chinese news service just leaves sites out of searches so there are
no dead links. Keywords are generally the main thing used to filter content
at both the backbone level as well as with ISPs and even where you work
there. Your QT issues and others are more than likely related to how Saudi
Arabia limits access and sites as all traffic there flows through a central
agency and is monitored.  Things are blocked but sites not able to be
accessed there in SA tend to give the user a message stating sites are
blocked but not always. China on the other hand is more sophisticated than
this and you do not get the blocked messages often if at all.  Other
countries like SA are learning from the Chinese and filters and techniques
are being added daily to their main backbone, etc.  The fact that these
controls are also multilayered as in China, but not as good, tends to be the
reason why iChat might work for someone else there, but not for you at work
at the school for example.  Just a few cents on this...
Cheers