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Can Apple make Quicktime fix AVI's problems?
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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ok I'm some what of a DV newbie but I've been working with a a verity of AVI files (also asf, mpeg, mov, etc...) and it can suck!
Hey guys we are Mac people! we shouldn't have to do complicated work arounds to watch movies that PC people don't think twice about!
ok, I'm ranting but I'm tired of having Real Media player, Divx Player, QuickTime (movie player) to watch movies I get...
Apple needs to make QuickTime the end all movie player for us... buy the AVI licensees and do it already and make it totally invisible to the end user... no extensions just install QuickTime 5.5 and we can watch any dam format out there!!!
anybody disagree... why would you? I want the scope on why this hasn't happened yet... 
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You ask the impossible, frankly.
buy the AVI licensees and do it already and make it totally invisible to the end user...
Do you honestly think Microsoft, Real, and whoever is currently maintaining the Indeo codecs would be willing to sell licenses to Apple? The day that happens is the day Satan sends a meteorological team to investigate the record low temperatures in his domain. There's no way they'd do that; they're competitors in this market, remembet? Note, by the way, that QuickTime supports AVI files perfectly; what it doesn't support in some cases are the codecs.
Even when that's done, get this through your head: DivX cannot bo ported to OSX. The reason is that DivX is not really a codec. It's just a hack of an old Microsoft codec, one which is not in recent versions of WiMP/MacOS and which is extremely unlikely to be ported. Reverse-engineering is a theoretical possibility, but even if it were done, Microsoft would pounce on whoever did it like a leopard on a wounded rabbit; thanks to the DMCA, they could even have that person thrown in jail.
Translation: it ain't happenning. Deal with it. This is the price we pay because the idiots who started the movie-rip industry went with a closed codec that doesn't actually exist.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Originally posted by Millennium:
<STRONG>You ask the impossible, frankly.
Even when that's done, get this through your head: DivX cannot bo ported to OSX. The reason is that DivX is not really a codec. It's just a hack of an old Microsoft codec, one which is not in recent versions of WiMP/MacOS and which is extremely unlikely to be ported.</STRONG>
Not exactly...
http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ulti...3&t=007069
Sorry I know i just threw a wench in the works, but I use to think exactly like you Mill, now I have hope  .
-Owl
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