[Bf-webcontent] Re: Blender.org website section email

[Glen Moyes]

The ones he listed were all of greybeards tutorials. And recently I did 
get an email from someone that had problems playing his because he was 
using the DivX Player to play the video tutorials. The confusion is 
probably brought up because I have "DivX AVI" written next to my 
tutorials but only "AVI" next to greybeards because I'm not too sure 
what codec he uses, except I believe it's a Microsoft MPEG4 codec. I 
should ask him what codec he uses and then write that next to his. I 
thought it would be helpful for visitors to see what file format and 
codec each video uses, because we'll also be having XviD encoded files 
in the future.

I thought the page was pretty clear. Right on the main video tutorials 
page under the "Playing the Videos" heading it says to get VLC because 
it plays all the video tutorials. Considering how many downloads we've 
had and how little emails I get about people who can't playing the video 
tutorials through QuickTime on Mac OS X, I don't think it's a serious 
issue. But I should list what codec greybeard uses just so there's less 
confusion.

- Glen

bf-webcontent-request at projects.blender.org wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>is this a codec issue? If so, is our video tutorials page clear enough 
>on the requirements for playing these files?
>
>Bart
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>Begin doorgestuurd bericht:
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>>Blender Staff, Thank you for the free Blender proagram. While checking 
>>out your Video Tutorials section I found a few of the videos failed to 
>>play after I downloaded them. They are; Advanced Mesh Modeling: 
>>Subdivision Surfaces, Textures: LSCM UV Mapping, Animation of 
>>Undeformed Objects: Key Framing and IPO Curves, Special Modeling 
>>Techniques: Using Dipliverts, and Special Modeling Techniques: Paths 
>>and Dupliframes. Can't Wait to see them. Thanks. 
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