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6 Oct 2024 08:17:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Most ambitious ever!  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 25 Sep 2003 11:59:13
Message: <3f7310d1$1@news.povray.org>
In article <3F72C11E.A02E1940@onwijs.com> , Remco de Korte 
<rem### [at] onwijscom>  wrote:

> This isn't really about MY operating system. I'm just looking for a way
> to make sure that a movie file will play on as many (windows) systems as
> possible, preferrable all that haven't be tampered with too much.

I understand, but I would suggest to simply not use codecs that old for
anything new even if they are most likely on many systems.  In five years
they will be gone for sure once M$ has once again changed all its APIs...

> Besides, I don't think current OS's will get bloated much more by a
> couple of old codecs. These codecs are miniscule compared to all the
> redundant functionality that comes with XP for instance. But that's
> beside the point :)

True :-)

    Thorsten

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