Happy - Not Sad - cseeman

CraigP

I've been a Mac user for 15 years. I do corporate videos. My clients REQUIRE that I deliver on Windows Media. I boycott that and I'm UNEMPLOYED.

Being able to do Windows Media 9 on my Mac means I DO NOT HAVE TO GET A WINDOWS BOX TO DO THE CONVERSION.

People setting up in house corporate media departments can now BUY MACS and still deliver WMV files required by the "boss." Perviously the "boss" would FORCE you to buy a PC, using the execuse you had to deliver WMV for the company server.

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Friday, January 21 2005 @ 07:37 AM PST

Sad - CraigP

So, surely, the solution here is not to shoot the platform in the back by exporting to this format, but rather to convince the other higher-up that WMV isn't the best way.

Every time I encounter WMV I wonder how it has managed to become so proliferate. When you choose what format to produce, the only thing WMV seems to have going for it is that it can only play on Windows... How about MPEG4? A format that will play on EVERY platform there is. Natively supported in Quicktime, mplayer, and even Windows Media Player.

Can someone please tell me why MWV is so great, and has become so popular, when there are much better (cross-platform) alternatives out there?

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Monday, January 24 2005 @ 04:06 AM PST