That's more than enough formats. Linux users are used to tracking down
alternatives in order to get stuff to work for them. In this case,
several of those formats can be played in Linux with VLC or Mplayer.

-Josh


On 6/5/06, Casey McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just wondering if any other videobloggers have been hassled by a Linux
> journalist/user named Malcolm Dean about the format of their vlogs...
>
> Although I posted a message here last month asking if Galacticast
> works on Linux and I got unanimous responses from the group and other
> friends not on the group saying it works fine, this guy is telling us
> we should format our stuff in ancient MPEG2 formats!
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> The thing is; we already have 5 different formats: H.264 .mov, .wmv,
> standard iPod .m4v (which is an MPEG compression), 3gp and YouTube
> flash.  And since I've been told by at least 4 different Linux users
> that it all works fine, this guy SEEMS to be acting like an ass about it.
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> Has anyone else had to deal with this guy before?
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> Casey
> http://www.galacticast.com/
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> --- In [email protected], "Casey McKinnon"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I just got an e-mail from a guy asking why Galacticast isn't available
> > for all operating systems... apparently he was irate because it wasn't
> > working on Linux.  As far as I can tell, if he downloads the .wmv file
> > onto his computer and opens it into his default player (Xine), it
> > should work...
> >
> > Does anyone use Linux and wouldn't mind checking it out for me?  I
> > don't want to leave anyone out in the cold just because they choose an
> > alternative to Windows...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Casey
> > http://www.galacticast.com/
> >
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