Date   : Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:42:37
From   : gARetH baBB <hick.bbc@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Promo Videos

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Dave Moore wrote:

> 1) I wasn't sure if an xVid playback driver existed for RISC OS (whilst I
> think Mpegs which will work on just about any platform without requiring
> additional drivers)

This is a BBC micro mailing list, who cares about RISC OS ?

Acorn abandoned ... well the world ... ages ago, I have pretty much no
consideration of what came after, and I certainly know the restrictions of
what came before.

> 3) If anyone *does* want higher quality versions, they can get uncompressed
> MPEG-2 versions from me (just send me the 2 x blank DVD-Rs required and an

MPEG2 isn't "uncompressed".

> The files *can* be downloaded directly from our server, but I'm only
> circulating/promoting the File Hosting links because such large files
> have the potential to MURDER the server's bandwidth.

Fair enough, but both the URLs you provided are broken and basically
useless.

> But if I do end up running off some high-quality xVids, I'll probably end up
> sticking them on UK Nova or something ...

Sounds reasonable.