In article <39fe59ef@news.povray.org>, "Mark Wagner" 
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

>Jerry wrote in message ...
>>  (c)  Or it might be that it isn't really an MPEG file, it just has the
>>.mpg extension, and is actually another video format (divx?) that is
>>relatively new, and that the other players understand but that Quicktime
>>doesn't yet.
>
>
>You mean that we actually got a round of the IRTC anims contest where no
>MPEG-1 movies were submitted, yet there were very few problems displaying
>the movies, and the submissions checking script didn't scream bloody murder
>about people submitting their movies in the wrong format?

If you're saying that *no* IRTC entry this round worked in Quicktime, 
this is definitely a problem on your computer, as I've played three of 
them already on mine.

Jerry
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In article <39fd0c16$1@news.povray.org> , "Mark Wagner" 
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

> To quote the error message Quicktime 4 gives me:
> "Couldn't open the file "mwinvade.mpg" because it is
> not a file Quicktime understands."

You are right.  MPEG-1 is only supported by QuickTime for Macintosh.  I was
not aware of this, but it is rather clear in the list of supported codec
formats on the QuickTime datasheet - a PDF document which nobody will read -
which lists "MPEG-1 (Macintosh)".

However, you could try the QuickTime 5 Preview, I think it supports MPEG-1
on both, PCs and Macs as they advertise it.


    Thorsten

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