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Re: 3ivx D4 4.5 released

At 10:16 AM -0800 11/24/03, email@hidden wrote: 
On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 02:32 PM, Greg Chapman wrote:

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.

Right, which is by design in Quicktime... there can only be one decoder for each media type, right?

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.

This isn't entirely true. It takes over MPEG-4 decoding, but Apple's MPEG-4 is still an option for decoding.

Windows Media Player allows codecs to register what types they'll play and 3ivx on that platform will let you go in and determine whether to use 3ivx or DivX to play the various flavors of Divx. Is this possible in Quicktime? (i.e. the hooks are there, but 3ivx just hasn't elected to make a control panel to adjust what their codec plays)

One of the nice things about Mac OS 9 and X, and I'm wondering if this extends to Quicktime, is the ability to specify exactly what program to use in the resource fork and override the filename extension. Is there a similar capability hidden away Quicktime where one could write a special code into the Quicktime file and force the player to select Apple's MPEG-4 decoder even if another is registered?


P.S. Now knowing that Quicktime Player is a boy and seeing as how my computer is a girl, I hope the Quicktime team makes a point to program Quicktime how to treat a woman with respect. I don't want to come in one night and find the Player all over my computer's desktop ;)

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                             Matthew Rigdon
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