On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Kevin Marks wrote:
> >MPEG 4 is based on quicktime, right?
>
> Yes, but with slight variations. Also, although the file format is
> very similar, there are new codecs involved that need to be added to
> QT.
Ermmm did you check MPEG4IP Open SOurce package yet? This supposedly
has the possibility to stream iso MPEG-4 to QT clients (from Darwin QTSS)
> >And WMP's .wmv files can be made ISO MPEG4 compatible, too.
>
> No. They can contain MPEG4 video data, but they wrap it in a
> proprietary patented format that only MS's code will read. They have
> sued companies that reverse engineer it.
WMV? Yeah right..I won't say anything about their supposed
"compliance to" ISO MPEG-4, because its non existant ;-)
> >So, one would think that quicktime should be able to play an ISO MPEG4
> >compatible file [especially if re-suffixed to .mpg]
>
> It will be able to in future; this work is underway, and has been
> demonstrated at NAB & WWDC. It is not part of QuickTime 5. The
> extension will be .mp4 - it is a different file format than mpeg 1 &
> 2
I think this can allready be done with MPEG4-IP Open Source package.
Did not test it yet. Hinting takes place through QuickTime for Linux.
http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/
Regards,
Mark
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