Hi,
Greg Chapman <email@hidden>
> Beware. QTPlayer doesn't know who encoded it. He only knows what the
> format is ('mp4v'), and he opens that codec and asks for a
> user-readable name. If you have 3ivX installed, _all_ your movies with
> MPEG4 video will be reported as 3ivX, whether or not 3ivX actually did
> the work. They _are_ doing some real hijacking (3ivX completely
> disables and replaces Apple's MPEG4 Video codec), but here they are
> also hijacking the right to name MPEG4 Video in general.
Though about "hijacking" other players MIME associations, there is a
problem, QT has a dialog for this...the problem of hijacking has many
dimensions.
Shouldnt there be more transparency in such things? Users should be better
informed, it is their computer. And vendors have interests, unfair
competition, something like that. A lot of interests of different parties,
well, policy......
Btw, the hijacked Apple codec, is it Fraunhofer? I read something like
this on the Fraunhofers page, dont have the URL at hand.
This would explain the famous "mp3s in mp4s" problem. Fraunhofers are
german academics, nothing but grey in pepperland......
H.
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/ -- wow ;-)
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