BLU meeting videos in MPEG format

[John.Richard at compaq.com (Richard, John)]

windows media player can play MPEG-1 files, but I have always used
QuickTime to play mpeg files on windows. 

from the winbloze site:
Q. What other formats does Windows Media support?
A. In addition to the popular Windows Media Format, Windows Media Player
7 supports the following audio and video file formats: waveform (WAV),
audio-visual interleaved (AVI), musical instrument digital interface
(MIDI), Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG), video on demand (VOD), AU,
Audio IFF (AIFF), remote method invocation (RMI), and MPEG-2 layer 3
(MP3).

The weird thing is that they list video on demand as a format(VOD), and
they call MP3 MPEG-2 layer 3, and all the while I thought it was just
MPEG layer 3

-----Original Message-----
From: John Abreau [mailto:jabr at blu.org]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:04 PM
To: Drew Taylor
Cc: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: BLU meeting videos in MPEG format 


Drew Taylor <drew at drewtaylor.com> writes:

> OK, I've DL the first file, but Windoze Media Player can't figure out
how 
> to play it. Any ideas? My box is running Win 2k (which has been quite 
> stable I have to say :-).

It's a plain MPEG-1 file, extracted from a Video CD I burned on a
Terapin
video cd recorder. I don't use Windows Media Player, so I don't know how
you'd tell it to play an mpeg file. I'd be somewhat surprised if MS
didn't
support playback of mpeg-1, as it's one of the older standards and
should
work pretty much everywhere.


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