[OOT] windows multimedia format incompatibilities (was: Re: [OT] MPEG2 on Windows)

[Thomas Jollans <tjollans@jollybox.de>]

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:

>On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:45, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able to do
>>it, as onw of it's side functions.
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>Tangential on this topic, I encoded a movie from and AVI created by my 
>digital camera on my Sarge box to MPEG2 to using Kino. It plays fine on 
>all my systems, but I've sent it to friends, and they can't play it on 
>their windows boxes... I wonder what MS has done to mess up that, it 
>should be a no-brainer? It has to be their fault... :-) I don't have 
>access to any windows-boxes now, has anybody else had this problem?
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I only had the problem that windows users can't play vanilla mpeg4/mp3
avi videos - the format I rip dvds to... msmpeg4v2, mp3 avi video seams
to work. And microsoft doesn't seam to support ogg vorbis either...