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From: "Sascha Kimmel \(tricos Mediaservice\)" <kimmel@tricos.com>
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Subject: BETA does not support Quicktime 4
Date: 4 Dec 1999 11:13:25 -0000
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Hi,

I recently found out that you cannot play QUICKTIME4-videos with the new
movieplayer-windowitem, at least on Windows. Although I've Quicktime 4
(player only) installed the player just plays the sound, NOT the movie -
that's exactly the same thing as if you're using M$ MediaPlayer (6.4) and
try to play QT4 files with it - the difference is that the MediaPlayer tells
you that there's some part of the movie that's not known and will be ignored
and the BETA functions simply ignore this.

I guess it's not Mjolner's but Apple's fault, because Apple does not seem to
offer a generic Windows codec for Quicktime 4 although they did for all QT
versions before.
It's just not acceptable for me (Apple's policy) because their "holy QT
player 4" does not offer to play videos in loop mode, which nearly ALL
available video players on this world do which is a quite important function
for me.
And the nice QT 4 popup "buy now".... well, I suggest not to use Quicktime
for encoding videos.

If you want to use a real standard, use MPEG instead which is - bad
luck -currently not supported by BETA.
But it's quite interesting: if you rename a MPEG file to something".avi" the
MediaPlayer will play it, but BETA will not - Mjolner, could you please fix
that?
It looks as if there's just the wrong WINAPI function used.

Regards,
Sascha Kimmel