Posted by dorayme on 04/09/07 23:31

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"cwdjrxyz" <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info> wrote:

> > > How you code for flv/swf will depend on what software you use. If you
> > > have a recent full official flash authoring suite, you likely have
> > > everything you need.
> >
> > I have access to Flash MX 2004 for Mac, is this not recent
> > enough? In any case, if it is $50 or so to get the bit that is
> > needed (you mentioned this figure), this would not be a problem
> > for me. It would be well worth it to deliver movies in some style
> > and with a lesser chance of perplexity by the user. I will
> > understand more when I have actually done this thing, what I get
> > must be OS X Mac compatible. I am looking at the page you mention
> > etc and I am not immediately seeing anything about Mac OS X...
> > but I will keep looking ...
> >

>
> As I said in an earlier reply in this thread, many of the specialist
> programs for writing media files are available only for Windows and
> often for Mac- but not always. You absolutely must have a Windows OS
> computer for using some of these specialized programs. That is just
> how the world is, and it just does not pay for a company to write
> specialized programs of limited sales for OSs that are not used nearly
> as much as Windows, and sometimes even MAC. However, once you have
> encoded your media files, they will work just fine on web pages viewed
> using any OSs that will support a player for the type of media you
> use.


OK, it will not be the end of the world if I have to do some
things on Windows machine. I have a Windows 2000 box that is very
good (once owned by a website making pro) and I guess I can use
that if I have to or even upgrade it.

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dorayme

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