Candace, you are brilliant. Will do it this way for my site. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Candace Cottrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:59 AM Subject: RE: for those of you who missed it
> Very cute video Beth. > > You could also always just put it in flash and have the flash player > play it. > > > Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer > The Children's Medical Center > One Children's Plaza > Dayton, OH 45404 > 937-641-4293 > http://www.childrensdayton.org > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/7/2002 3:37:15 PM >>> > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 3:17 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: for those of you who missed it > > > > > > Microsoft has put a lot of pressure on any company that offers a wmv > > > convertor. You'll be hard pressed to find a legal software > > pkg to do it. > > Actually simple conversion is just fine... The lack of packages isn't > to > do with MS pressue so much as the newness of Windows Media... Many > professional packages do this (but aren't cheap). > > You can actually do the conversion using only MS tools... However it's > not simple (you must use GraphEdit, from the resource kit, to redirect > the stream output... Not pretty). > > Windows Media marks are major switch in video compression on Windows. > It's not the same story as AVI compression and so many companies are > only now catching up (just in time to go back and tweak things for > Windows Media 9). > > However Windows Media also support Digital Rights Management - and > converting a digitally protected file does, understandably, get MS a > little upset. Not that it can't be done... But it is a violation of > the > (completely absurd, in my opinion) Content Protection Act. > > I don't agree with the law, but as long as it's on the books I don't > blame any company for defending it. > > So, in short: removing digital rights management is (to MS) a very bad > thing. Converting personal (non-protected) media isn't. That being > said MS is still pushing Windows Media as an "end" format: they expect > you to have orginals on hand and to generate non-editable Windows > Media > for publication. Only lately have they really embraced editing > directly > in Windows Media format. > > Jim Davis > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
