From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-08-09T16:41:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] OSCON videos, medias

In article <55448.172.16.2.8.1123550888.squirrel@devsea.com>,
John Wells <lists@sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
>why the lucky stiff said:
>> My friends, I've got my act together now and a BitTorrent tracker up
>> with some of the videos from OSCON.  The two Least Surprised cartoons
>> and the foxes video.  And Quicktime in cases where my Quicktime encodin=
>g
>> wasn't all muxxxored.
>
>Awesome...'cept...I can't see it.  I wish you Rubyist MacHeads would
>remember us Linux guys occasionally...that's one thing about coming to
>Rails and Ruby in general...y'all love the Quicktime.
>
>Most of the time, mplayer can handle it, but the .mov files you posted
>give it fits.
>
>I'll have to bide my time and watch it from my wife's eMac, or borrow a
>Windows box at work.
>

Actually, _why initially did them on Linux and (I'm pretty sure) was using 
mplayer when he was showing them.  Some of us MacHeads complained that we 
couldn't watch them under quicktime (sound, but now picture).... at any 
rate, I'm sure _why has something that will play fine on Linux.  

....can you say 'Tower of Babel'?

Phil