Re: 800A017F error
- From: Ian Jennings <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 02:56:16 -0000
"Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:#q3o$X$gFHA.272@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> People seem to think that Windows Media Player should be able to play
> anything under the sun.
>
Hi Ted,
I've been in computing far too long to expect things to work together
*at all*. :)
But having said that, we've moved on from CP/M and DOS 1.0 and I would
expect there to be some easily available means of translation for one of
the major DV-capture applications on the market - especially when it
cost a small fortune to buy in the first place. This isn't a $20 piece
of shareware. Why shouldn't Pinnacle expect their file formats to work
and to continue to work? One would imagine that they were written to the
spec at the time. They certainly worked like the spec said they should.
> All the major media players are designed for
> commercially produced music and video currently available for sale in
> the market for which that version of the media player was written.
> That's because the purpose of the major media players is to sell you
> that music and video.
Fine, but IMO it shouldn't break everything that's been previously
produced. When they brought out tapes it didn't mean that everything
that played vinyl suddenly stopped working.
> You can certainly try to play other formats in
> the major media players, but don't be surprised if they won't work or
> if there's no way to make them work.
Why not? They worked just fine before. I can still read in Dbase3 data
from 1987. As I have said elsewhere, I think we would be most upset if
we had to buy a new car every time they repainted the lines on the road.
They introduced gas-powered cars but it didn't make petrol ones obsolete
overnight.
And this isn't as if it's a gas-to-petrol conversion, it's Turing 101.
The 1's and 0's went in there and should come out the same way they went
in. If that is a gimme then it's a matter of translation. Ok, so it
takes an hour to decompress and recompress a 2M file. It would be a
major inconvenience but the files would still be useable, as would a
system that cost ten times more than the Windows it runs on.
But, IIRC from Week 1, HCI101, 'unknown error here's a number' and to
then leave everyone stranded is *not* a good thing, IMO. And it doesn't
help me fix my now-broken files. Bwah! ;)
Cheers
.
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