It
> doesn't help to list the additional requirement in the body of the post,
> because that part doesn't become visible until after the animation file
> itself is finished downloading.

shows on mine.  i use netscape.  the body pops up and then the file
downloads.

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On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 13:30:58 -0700, "Dave Blandston"
<gra### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

>Just an idea - if you're posting an animation that requires some special
>codec, like Divx, it would save those of us who don't want to go hunt down
>and install additional codecs the time of downloading unusable animations if
>everyone posting those things would mention it in the subject line. 

What's so special about DivX besides being a really great codec? Or
tdo you consider "special" a codec which is not supported by MicroSoft
and hence unavailable by the automatic codec download feature of Media
Player? MP is known to have problems even with some 100% standard-
compliant MPEG animations but that is irrelevant to your question,
sorry.

>It
>doesn't help to list the additional requirement in the body of the post,
>because that part doesn't become visible until after the animation file
>itself is finished downloading. I'm sure there are many fine codecs
>available out there, but I don't want to install any more stuff than
>necessary on my computer because of the increased chances of crashes,
>clashes, etc.  ;-)

A modern operation system should not be afraid of a codec. Even less
so if it aims to bring multimedia technology to your home computer.
I've never had a codec crash on me (under Windows). Granted, I've had
a *player* crash but that was the player's fault because the anim in
question opened well in other apps using the same codec.

Putting aside my slight disagreements with the above points, I agree
with your main suggestion to indicate the coded and version in the
subject line, and a link to a download site in the body should also be
of help.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] usanet
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

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Peter Popov wrote:

>A modern operation system should not be afraid of a codec.

But the player may be. In my case my default player, Irfanview, goes 
bazurk. No progress-bar/framenumber-bar. Also stop/kill Irfanview can only 
be done via the taskmanager.
Windows media player latest-1 shows a strange colour band on the bottom of 
the sequence.
Please use MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or GIF(I know, I know) everybody can view these 
(I think).

Ingo

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Speaking of DivX, I thought the format died with the those proprietary
DVD players?

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Mike wrote:
> 
> Speaking of DivX, I thought the format died with the those proprietary
> DVD players?
Yes that was DivX, the format now discussed is actually called DivX;-)
yes, that smily is part of the name.

/Peter
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Beta Test Version:  Still too buggy to be released. 
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"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote :
>
> What's so special about DivX besides being a really great codec? Or
> tdo you consider "special" a codec which is not supported by MicroSoft
> and hence unavailable by the automatic codec download feature of Media
> Player?

    My copy of Media Player ran the file without a hitch, and didn't have to
download anything.

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On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:54:04 -0400, "Bill DeWitt"
<the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

>> What's so special about DivX besides being a really great codec? Or
>> tdo you consider "special" a codec which is not supported by MicroSoft
>> and hence unavailable by the automatic codec download feature of Media
>> Player?
>
>    My copy of Media Player ran the file without a hitch, and didn't have to
>download anything.

Did you download and install the DivX;-) codec previously? It can't
jsut appear on your machine, you know...


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] usanet
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

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> Please use MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or GIF(I know, I know) everybody can view these

firstly GIF? no, never in a million years, might as well post fli or flc's,
and i dont render in full colour to have it destroyed converting it to 256.

i am unable to make mpeg's directly, and am far from happy converting one
lossy codec to another, might as well not bother !

after all DivX;-) is only a video codec !!. its not wrapped up in its own
peice of bloated spyware, like real player which most people seem to have
installed

Rick

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"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote :
>
> Did you download and install the DivX;-) codec previously? It can't
> jsut appear on your machine, you know...

    I don't think so, I kinda notice when those things happen because of my
zonealarm settings. I just got the new version a few days ago (ok, maybe two
weeks) and I don't think it has downloaded -anything- yet.

    Of course, there is a good chance that the new version uses the
downloaded codecs from the old version. In which case I could have
downloaded it months ago...

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"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote in message
news:2t4qos4c39jm014ctqg5cdvd4uasqo2s2i@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:54:04 -0400, "Bill DeWitt"
> <the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>
> >> What's so special about DivX besides being a really great codec? Or
> >> tdo you consider "special" a codec which is not supported by MicroSoft
> >> and hence unavailable by the automatic codec download feature of Media
> >> Player?
> >
> >    My copy of Media Player ran the file without a hitch, and didn't have
to
> >download anything.
>
> Did you download and install the DivX;-) codec previously? It can't
> jsut appear on your machine, you know...
>

    ... and even so, that would mean that it is available by automatic
download even though the Evil MicroSoft Empire doesn't support* it.

    *(As if other players come with it loaded already...)

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