Maybe they would be interested in working on the video?
It probably gets into licensing issues.
But you are right, there is no excuse for Microsoft not to include
mp4 playback in its consumer products, besides Zune.
Frank Fulchiero
Digital Media Specialist
Connecticut College
From: Frank Lowney <email@hidden>
Subject: cross-platform video in PowerPoint
Perhaps the folks who make Flip4Mac (Telestream) will come out with
a Flip4Win product that is also free and extends WiMP (is it even
extensible via third party components as QuickTime is?) to be able
to play MPEG-4.
I have long thought that it is highly ironic that one of the main
MPEG-4 patent holders (Microsoft) does not have a media player
capable of playing standards-based .mp4 files.
Really, MPEG-4 is where Apple and Microsoft could and should
compliment one another and thereby do the right thing for all of
their customers. We should be able to put an ISO/IEC .mp4 file in
Powerpoint on either platform and reasonably expect it to play coss-
platform.
