POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.macintosh : Animation software : Re: Animation software Server Time
1 May 2024 22:07:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Animation software  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 7 Apr 2003 05:00:42
Message: <3e913e3a$1@news.povray.org>
In article <1ft1cv1.rbn5a31jftseeN%yvos.s@gmx.net> , yvos.s@gmx.net (Yvo 
Smellenbergh) wrote:

> Don't know why but most movies created on a mac will not play when
> downloaded to websites.
> Just create your movie and convert it.

Because somebody changed the "QuickTime Exchange" setting of QuickTime in
Mac OS 9 or simply didn't install the QuickTime web browser plug in.

Everything else are just some other user errors on the uploading side; in
particular there are a _very_ few web servers cleverly configured to send
files with the extension ".mov" as text.

Apart from that, all movie files are identical in format, and it is simply
wrong that QuickTime movie files won't play when put on websites:

In fact it has been a trivial thing to do all along, or how do you think
Eduard's movie at <http://mac.povray.org/art_artists/esp/3worldsmovie.html>
(dating back to 1995) is able to play on the web?  It doesn't require a
magican or some odd tools to put a QuickTime movie up on the web.  And it
definetly works on all the big free webspace providers.

    Thorsten

____________________________________________________
Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.