For those doing multimedia stuff and just getting into it. After many, many
hours of crossplatform struggle we discovered that even the latest version
(4.1.2) of Quicktime for Windows will not play mpg movies. (maybe 5.0 will
but we don't know that yet.) Apple is very careful not to say anything about
this on their web site and the upfront text would indicate that your latest
quicktime download (4.1.2) to a windows machine "should" run whatever.mpg
movies. But they won't. Also Quicktime 4.0 on a Mac will not run them either
(earlier and later versions do). Check the forums and viola. . in the
QuickTime for Windows forum at the site there are all these posts "Can't
open MPEG" with replies "Mpegs don't work in Quicktime" Of course that's
only on Windows. I had to beg our video team to reprocess the same footage
(10 hours of CPU time from original footage back out to simple
Quicktime.mov-sorensen codec for cd rom) and set up a "upgrade trap" for
QT4.0 in case anyone still had that (surprisingly, lots of people still do.
. .)
Something else to note. Mpgs are amazingly scaleable on a Mac. You can set a
larger than original movie rect (say 800X600 for an original movie size of
640X480) for the player and lock location and you get this giant and still
very fine looking movie. But the Sorenson CODEC is not scaleable. If you try
the above your movie will lock up when it opens in the larger-than-original
player rect. On the plus side the Sorenson CODEC is very efficient, nearly
1/2 smaller than the MPG CODEC for the same original footage at the same
size (640X480)
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