Animated warped clouds.

[Oshyan]

The files linked to were not "movies" at all. They were simply containers for *pointers* to actual movie files. If you save them, they turn out to be about 200bytes or so. No surprise that other meda players don't really see that as a "movie".

- Oshyan

[jo]

Hi Oshyan,

The files linked to were not "movies" at all. They were simply containers for *pointers* to actual movie files. If you save them, they turn out to be about 200bytes or so. No surprise that other meda players don't really see that as a "movie".

They're still QT movies. A QT movie is more of a generic container than a movie file with just frame data. They can contain all sorts of stuff. You can make QT movies which reference data and content in a different location, as in this case. A QTVR movie is still a QT movie, you can even make interactive QT movies with sprites and stuff. Anyway, if a player fully supported QT movies it would be able to play it, probably because it used QT itself ( the libraries, not the Player application ) to read the file. Some players understand just enough of the QT format to be a play a movie if it's in a codec they recognise and uses the "usual" QT atoms to describe it. Quite a few players can play ... erm ... MPEG-4 movies because the QT format was adopted as the container for those movies. Something like that.

Anyway, semantics :-).

Regards,

Jo

[Oshyan]

I understand all that, I was referring to "movie" in the literal sense, whereas you were adopting Apple's corrupted and clearly less accurate version. They should just call it a container format, as it is, and be done with it. Then we can be clear, these are not "movies", they are "files", which point to "movies".

- Oshyan

[Mohawk20]

Guys... no fighting!! 

You sound like a married couple!