Audio is another matter; are there freely available players for Windows, Unix, and MacOS that can play files encoded as your describe?
So far I've testted Xvid with silent video it works fine.
MPEG-4 is standard but I had problem with the FourCC code in an avi file.
MPEG-4 is an ISO standard but there seems to be some controversy about patents, who knows more ?
With the Windows Media Player sound will work if you have the Xvid and the Ogg/Vorbis codecs installed With Linux it depend which player you use but the best one are now codec compatible with Windows With a Mac well I don't know....
Who can clarify the MPEG-4 patent issue ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brion Vibber" vibber@aludra.usc.edu To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 12:46 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Proposal for video format
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Eric Demolli wrote:
Is there a standard video format for Wikipedia ? If not I suggest Xvid (as efficient as Divx and GNU GPL) with
Ogg/Vorbis
sound any advice ?
Xvid is an MPEG-4 codec, right? "In theory" they should all be player-compatible.
What's the patent situation with MPEG-4?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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