Thread: H.264 support in OS2008. How ?
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sjgadsby is offline sjgadsby
2007-12-20 , 19:41
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Originally Posted by anidel View Post
It's a .mov file, so file manager doesn't know how to handle it.
Well, that would be a QuickTime file. The video inside the QuickTime container may be MPEG-4 Part 10, but there's (sadly) not much support for the QuickTime container format in Linux, so the tablets don't know what to do with it.

Renaming it to AVI won't help, as that extension is for a completely different (and much less sophisticated) container format. It's like renaming a Word .doc file to .txt and expecting FBReader accept that.

Originally Posted by anidel View Post
What kind of H.264 are supported ?
I haven't played much with H.264 in OS2008 yet, but it should support H.264 in a program stream. (And in a transport stream for streaming purposes.) It certainly supports the MP4 container format. Very likely, it will also support H.264 inside an AVI, just because so many people refuse to let AVI's bloated corpse rest in piece.

Anyway, look for some .mp4 files. Apple-ish .m4v files will also work.
 

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