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Aaarghhhh. WMV files. Rant. Help.
Sat, 4 Mar 2006 08:25:42 +0000 uk.people.silversurfers
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I'm posting this mainly to vent some steam, but you never know, someone
may have the answer. A client has sent me a "Movie" to put on his website. This 'thing' was created with something called Photostory. A freeby from Microsoft. It's a .wmv file, has a run time of about 15 minutes and is over 25mb. That's an obvious problem. At that size it's going to take ages to download, it won't stream as far as I know, and I doubt anyone will wait long enough. OK the first problem I had was actually seeing it. Nothing I have on the Mac will play it. None of the video tools I have recognize it. (VLC said I was missing WVP2) I put the cd into an XP PeeCee with WMP9 and it wanted to go off and ferret round the net for some suitable plugins. So I ended up at Microsoft.com and let it download and install some codecs and the "movie" ran. OK, so Microsoft is currently spouting on about supporting open standards and produces a piece of software that churns out media that can only be seen by.....well you get the picture, or not, if you don't have XP SP2 and WMP10. So the question is what do I do with this? I can just ignore the whole thing and put it on the website in the sure knowledge no-one is going to see it. But that's not right. I need to get this into another format that will compress it a bit and Fast Start or even stream. I usually use ffmpegX on the Mac to do this sort of thing, but as I said this file format isn't recognized. Any ideas? Any windows applications that 'will' do something with it, other than just play it? Faolan...
BoyPete...
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