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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 12/04/07 04:52
On Dec 3, 8:22 am, "Shelly" <sheldonlg.n...@asap-consult.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to have a .mov file on a site and have it played in a browser
> where the user does not have Quicktime installed? I googled, but all I saw
> was about embedding Quicktime in a web page.
You can play .mov files on some other players than QT. Often the other
player must have a codec installed to play a format it does not
support out of the box. Both my WMP 11 and Real 11 beta players will
play .mov. As delivered, WMP does not play many formats belonging to
other player makers. However, there are many codecs you can download
to make it play .flac, .ape, assorted mp4 formats, etc. Real will play
several Microsoft formats as delivered as well as Real formats.
However I am not for sure that the average casual computer user will
even know about how to find codecs and install them to extend what a
player will do on their computer. By searching Google with something
like "WMP flac codec" you often can find a free codec to download
fairly fast. But be careful what you download and read the fine print.
A few free download sites are not so free when you find what "gifts"
they will give you in addition to the one you want. It is safer to go
to a group concerning the player of interest and asking there for a
source of a good codec.
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