Re: Perian still needed?

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Perian still needed?
Date	2016-10-16 19:32 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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In article <2016101614374383028-xxx@yyyzzz>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

> 
> > nevertheless, for the benefit of other readers, avi and quicktime are
> > containers which can *contain* pretty much anything, including mp3,
> > aac, mpeg2, mpeg4, divx, wmv, wma and other *formats*.
> > 
> > an avi that contains mpeg 4 does not need any additional codecs to play
> > in quicktime, however, an avi that contains wmv does.
> 
> And how would we establish contents?  With something like Media 
> Inspector and the like?

open the movie in qt player and check its properties.

once you know what codecs are used, you can determine if you need to
install anything and if so, what to install.

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Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 14:06 -0400
  Re: Perian still needed? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-16 18:11 +0000
    Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 14:58 -0400
      Re: Perian still needed? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-16 12:15 -0700
    Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 15:16 -0400
      Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-16 15:26 -0400
        Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 15:42 -0400
          Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-16 15:48 -0400
            Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 15:57 -0400
              Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-16 16:40 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-16 13:50 -0700
                Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-16 16:52 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 16:52 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-16 17:00 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 17:21 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-16 17:33 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-16 14:37 -0700
                Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-16 19:32 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 18:10 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-16 19:32 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-16 17:49 -0700
                Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-16 21:00 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-17 17:29 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-17 17:29 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-17 17:38 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-17 17:42 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? MartinC <noreply@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-18 09:31 +0200
                Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-18 07:01 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-10-18 17:07 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-18 17:11 -0400
                Re: Perian still needed? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-18 16:27 -0700
                Re: Perian still needed? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-16 23:17 +0000
            Re: Perian still needed? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-10-17 23:12 -0400
              Re: Perian still needed? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-18 07:01 -0400
          Re: Perian still needed? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-16 23:14 +0000
      Re: Perian still needed? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-16 13:22 -0700
        Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 16:27 -0400
          Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 16:33 -0400
      Re: Perian still needed? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-16 23:12 +0000
        Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 19:16 -0400
  Re: Perian still needed? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-16 23:11 +0000
    Re: Perian still needed? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-16 19:18 -0400

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