Computer Museum of America on Tuesday night's PBS NOVA (fwd)

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Thu Jan 31 16:43:35 2002

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dan Kolb wrote:

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> On Thursday 31 Jan 2002 20:30 pm, Doc wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, The Wanderer wrote:
> > > Will there be anybody able to tape it and then convert it to an AVI file
> > > or mpg
> > > for download?
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> > Pretty please, NO avi. I'd hate to have to install Windows.
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> Um? You don't have to. MacOS has AVI / DivX playback. So does Linux, and
> presumably FreeBSD (avifile, xine, etc.).
> Personally, I'd quite like a DivX version of the programme.

  Uh, not necessarily. .avi covers a whole world of sins. AVI is not a
single format, and some aren't supported under MacOS or Linux. I dunno
about *BSD.
  MPG is a lot more universal. OGG would be more politically correct.

        Doc
Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 16:43:35 GMT