I just wish it were simply a case of Apple being snobbish. Its a mix of business, technical and legal issues which cause these problems.
For example Microsoft havent done a version of windows media player for OS X recently, its an older version that doesnt work so great. As microsoft control the wmv format, I doubt theres much that can legitimately be done about that situation unless microsoft wants to play ball. Apple dont dominate the home computer market, but Itunes has given them a way to get quicktime stuff onto a lot of PCs. HP computers that I bought for work recently came with itunes preinstalled (I think). The PC version of Quicktime 7 may not be quite right yet, but at least they bothered to release the new version for windows. I sympathise with problems trying to encode files of a suitable size/quality compromise. Filesize has nothing to do with the mov format per-se, but rather whatever settings you are using. The easiest way for Apple to make this stuff work better for users is to improve the range of default compression profiles, and make it alla bit clearer. Can I ask about your current compression methods like Sorenson.... Do you have to set a lot of different settings, or at least bitrate, or do you just pick an appropriate encoding profile and press go? .mp4 is still my best hope for the future. I believe it works with itunes, and PC support for this file format is improving. Im not saying its the best choice right now, but if nothing goes wrong then it can be a good bridge for this stuff in the future. Steve of Elbows --- In [email protected], Deirdre Straughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not having a Mac, I don't have good free tools available for QuickTime > editing - I even paid for QuickTime Pro, and did not find it particularly > transparent or powerful, nor is the compression good - 12 mb for a 90 second > file! Nearly 5 for a 30-second file with no audio. Maybe I'm doing something > wrong, but I don't have time to wrestle with it. > > Ergo, I use WMV or Flash (I have Sorenson Squeeze for "free" because I also > use it for our corporate website). And there are lots of people like me in > their inability to use QuickTime. If Apple wants to encourage video > "podcasting" or whatever they want to call it, they will have to be less > snobbish about formats. Although Mac owners are a large percentage of > current videobloggers, they are not a large percentage of the general > computer-using public, many of whom (we hope) will eventually start > videoblogging. > > In further testing, Andreas' hypothesis seems to be borne out: I added a > couple more MOVs to my RSS feed, and those show up in iTunes, but nothing > else does. > > FWIW, I am rebranding my site as [countries] > beginningwithi.com<http://beginningwithi.com>- a choice to be > explained in my upcoming newsletter, but probably obvious > to anyone who's been following and/or visits my site, however briefly. > > -- > best regards, > Deirdré Straughan > > www.straughan.com <http://www.straughan.com> (personal) > www.tvblob.com <http://www.tvblob.com> (work) > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
