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Message # 19802.2.1.1

Subject: Re: Go ahead and use QuickTime!

Date: Fri 16/12/05 10:44:32 GMT

Name: WETINRED

Email: stekz@cableone.net

Website: http://www.liquidladies.org

By QuickTime User - Fri 16/12/05 00:33:30 GMT

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Once again WIR reveals that he doesn't really know much about the technology he tries to work with.   Have you seen the Liquid Ladies site?    After a few months of WIR working on it, the site is a real mess--thumbnails that link to a different picture, scattered site structure, awful graphics, button 'mouse overs' that don't work, broken links, etc etc.   I'm sure the site loses a lot of sales from potential customers who get frustrated with a site that doesn't work right.  And the WIR site is crap too.

Playing a movie clip online through your browser is NOT streaming.   Streaming is a whole different animal that has to be set up on the site host's servers in order to work at all, and cameras/microphones that are on all the time, streaming output to the server.    Also, when someone does play a movie clip from the browser, the data is saved in the browser's cache, so that if they want to download it or play it again later, it comes from the cache, and not from re-downloading the clip (if that user uses the same computer), so there is almost no difference in bandwidth usage.

There is nothing 'wrong' with using QuickTime on a website.   In many ways it works better than other programs of its type--with QuickTime you can click the moving cursor to stop and move around the clip--you can't do that with Windows Media Player (at least not on my computer).   I get a better picture with QT, and can save the clip, if saving is allowed, from QT.   QT has one of the most efficient data compressors, making files smaller sometimes by as much as 50%.  Also, WMP is pretty buggy like most MicroSquish sofware (they just throw it together to rush it out to market to grab market share regardless of bugs still in the code) and it often causes a crash.   If you need a plugin, QT will take you to a web page that has many plugins to choose from.   When I encounter some clip that requires a plugin I don't have, I just move on to something else because I don't want to download all this plugin crap to clutter up my computer anyway--besides, some plugins want you to pay money before they'll work or they'll give you a trial version that works for a while and then breaks itself.  For that matter, if a clip does require some odd plugin, it's essentially a mistake on the part of the person who made the clip not to present it in the most accessible form--without the stupid plugin.   Another example of people messing with technology that is just way over their heads.

By WETINRED - stekz@cableone.net Wed 14/12/05 10:04:04 GMT

Website: http://www.wetinred.com

I will never put up any q/t or real media on the site. I have converters for those.

If u have a 800mhz or faster cpu (pentium 3 or p4 or equivelant)and Win XP u can play about anything with Windows Media Player version 10. All u need are all the divx codecs for the .avi's and they will play on it. Or u can play them on the Divx media player.And even on the VLC media player. Even on a system running Win2000, u can play just about anything on Win media player version 9. Some video is encoded with such codecs as "Xvid", "3ivx", and Indeo (Ligos). The codecs are free. Just download them. Microsoft has theur own set of decoders and codecs for the mpgs and the wmv formats. I have links where u can get anything u need on my links page.

Some files I have, have no audio in them, and sometimes I forget to mention that, but the Charlie's Angels clip does not have sound unfortunetly. Not that there was a lot of meaningful dialogue in the first place on that show, hahaha.

And as always if u have problems, email me thru the site or whereever, and I will help u.

wir

By Magician - Wed 14/12/05 08:01:08 GMT

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Has anybopy else experienced the same problems? The latest download to suffer this were the free offerings from Wetinred (Thanks by the way), which I couldn't watch , but could only hear the sound, and from Wamtec Gold the last Quicktime video also would not work.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Magician