DPRG mailing list archives: DPRG: Re: dprg library

Mon Feb 17 10:39:09 CST 1997

> >The video is compressed in a "quick time" format.  You'll need a QT viewer
> >to see it.  QuickTime seems to be better than MPEG in that you don't need
> >the decompression hardware and most computers can handle viewing it realtime.
> 
> I believe most of the new OS' include both.  I can't speak for Windows 
> but OS/2 Warp users can view MPEG and QuickTime videos without needing
> any special HW or SW.  I'm fairly certain the same is true for Macs.

I think you might be right.  There's a few 32bit mpeg drivers out there
that may be pretty fast.

> >You may want to wait until midnight or something to download it to keep
> >from tieing up Steve's computer.  
> 
> I'm more worried about hard disk space than bandwidth for now. Try to
> keep the DPRG stuff down in the 20-30meg range total until I get the
> machine upgraded.  Hopefully I'll be able to get the upgrade done sometime
> before March.  The new machine will have a much larger disk and you can
> upload all the multi-meg videos you want... 

Sorry about that.  Should I delete it for now?  Wasn't planning on putting
any other videos up there anytime soon.  I tried to do lots of tricks just
to trim it down to the 10 meg size too.

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