Re: ASF was: Re: SO SORRY!!

[Krevnik]

WMP 6 for MacOS could play ASF files, WMP7 and later on the Mac cannot. 
People might be migrating to it because of the fact that MS ditched it 
and didn't renew the patent or something to that effect? I don't know 
for sure, since I haven't looked extensively into it. Unless the camera 
has a firewire port and can interface with iMovie... I wouldn't go with 
it personally, because I can take a Firewire DV camera to nearly any 
machine without problems with software. ASF is riddled with 
incompatibilities with various technologies, since it was originally an 
MS-only development.

On Dec 27, 2003, at 11:39 AM, Andrew, a Mac Freak wrote:

On 12/26/03 12:24 PM, "Krevnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I don't think it is a problem, however, I don't think there is much of
an answer other than to return the camera if possible. ASF is so
horribly neglected by the PC community that created it, that the 
chance
of stumbling over some Mac software to convert it is lower than 
getting
struck by lightning in the next week.
This is puzzling, because many companies, including Gateway, just 
released
their own tapeless camcorders, most output the videos in ASF format.  
Is ASF
"coming back from the grave?"  But even so I searched the internet for 
a
while and only found one application (for windoze  :(  that could 
convert
the ASF files.  I tried it, and it worked, but it produces a watermark 
on
the converted .AVI files unless purchased for $24.99 (double-bummer).  
This
is my only option unless someone in the programming community makes an 
ASF
converter for Mac when Microsoft comes out with Windows Media Player 9 
for
Mac OS X.


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