Watch the lumbering oaf
It has come to my attention that people are having problems viewing the lizzy video. The problem stems from the fact that the movie format is something called motion jpeg. I have not found a way to convert said format into the more ubiquitous mpeg. This means Windows Media Player will most likely not be able to play videos captured on my camera. However, QuickTime can read this movie format. If you are feeling brave (or if you are a coward, but have a technologically brave friend), go to the link, download it, and install QuickTime. Its fairly easy and this is a viewer made by Apple, so it's a reputable source. Once you have QuickTime installed, you should have no problem enjoying the lumbering oaf video :)
posted by Eddie at 23:57
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Well that is certainly odd because I have no problems using Windows Media Player to view the avi files that come out of my A80.
I suspect, however, that this is because I have the latest Nimo Codecs Pack installed.
The problems are with people who don't tend to update the Windows Media Player and probably have no idea what a codec is :) From what I gathered, Quicktime comes with the ability to play motion JPEG right off the bat, so I figured that was easiest.
Is it easier to install Quicktime or a codec? Not sure if I could answer that one. It was easy for me to download the Nimo pack and install that, but it probably wouldn't be for someone else...
On the other hand Quicktime is evil, but useful. It sticks it's little fingers into EVERY media format created and is not nice about letting go.
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