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To: processing please hold
I wouldn't use any bizarre encoding formats like Real.

Stick with widely known, widely understood formats, like *.WAV [frankly, I wouldn't do anything with music unless it was *.WAV].

Also, I'd try to stick to the simplest visual formats as well, like HTML + Javascript [you can do your visuals in MSFT Powerpoint, and save them to HTML + Javascript].

Java is iffy [I don't know whether Java interpreters will be able to run 2008-ish Java stuff in another 10 or 15 years], and Shockwave/Flash is extremely iffy [it's such a new standard that I just don't know what will happen to it in another decade].

If you save all your work to some bizarre, weirdo format, then prepared for it to be obsolete in another five or ten years [as you're discovering now with Real Audio, which seemed like a very mainstream format as recently as five years ago].

20 posted on 06/17/2008 10:19:12 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

I used to could watch youtube videos on my computer. After I upgraded a newer version of firefox, I could no longer watch them. Anyhow, When the YT would play there was a pop-up that would let me download the video into real player, that’s what I did. I figured it was a way to save on bandwidth.(hughesnet)


24 posted on 06/17/2008 10:30:46 AM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Stick with widely known, widely understood formats, like *.WAV [frankly, I wouldn’t do anything with music unless it was *.WAV].


So true.


28 posted on 06/17/2008 10:49:07 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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