Date   : Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:46:24 -0500
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Acorn Promo Videos

gARetH baBB wrote:
> 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 ?

Those who are wanting to play the videos, run RISC OS, and want a say in 
preferred format, maybe? Context, dear boy...

>> 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".

No, but uncompressed MPEG-2 files are, well, uncompressed. :-)