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Re: AVIs for the Mac [message #63727 is a reply to message #63715]

Mon, 17 November 2008 17:09

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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Dan Larson wrote:
> Hi-
>
> Should these same routines work to generate AVIs which play on a Mac?

Yes, as long as a compatible codec to the one you used in windows is
available in quicktime.

A decent codec supported in Quicktime since version 3 is the indeo video
codecs (version 4.4). You would need to install these codecs on your
windows machine and encode using the version 4.4 codec. These used to
be free for windows (and can still be found for free) but it seems that
the company that now owns them is charging for them:

http://www.ligos.com/index.php/home/products/indeo/

Cinepack is standard in windows and is supported by quicktime although
it is a fairly poor codec.

If your Apple users can handle adding codecs to Quicktime then you can
use XVid. Quite a good codec. You would need to install on your
windows machine to encode file using it.

Windows download
http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html

Quicktime component:
http://www.xvid.org/Software.83.0.html

Another option is to buy QuickTime Pro for windows and transcode your
animations into quicktime format. This would guarantee that they would
be compatible. In this case simply create uncompressed AVI's and then
run thru quicktime pro. When I did this last I quite liked the Sorenson
codec output but there are many to choose from in quiktime pro.

-Rick

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		Re: AVIs for the Mac By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 19 November 2008 06:36
		Re: AVIs for the Mac By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 18 November 2008 17:48
		Re: AVIs for the Mac By: Rick Towler on Tue, 18 November 2008 17:14
		Re: AVIs for the Mac By: Dan Larson on Tue, 18 November 2008 15:27
		Re: AVIs for the Mac By: Dan Larson on Tue, 18 November 2008 15:25
		Re: AVIs for the Mac By: M. Katz on Tue, 18 November 2008 06:40
		Re: AVIs for the Mac By: Rick Towler on Mon, 17 November 2008 17:09
		Re: AVIs for the Mac By: David Fanning on Mon, 17 November 2008 14:31
		Re: AVIs for the Mac By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 19 November 2008 08:40
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