[MPlayer-users] Best mac / windows format?

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:52:38AM -0400, Vadim Garber wrote:
> I'm trying to upload a standard video format on the web for mac and 
> windows users, so they can download and view without much hassle. The 
> mac users would have quicktime installed, and the windows users would 
> have windows media player installed. No divx, no xvid. So I'm guessing 
> I'll need some very standard (mpeg2?) format. My issue is that I've 
> tried mpeg2video / mp2 for video / audio, and could only get it to play 
> on one mac (via quicktime), but there was no sound. In windows WMP could 
> not locate codecs.

MPEG1 is the only codec that will play out of the box on all systems,
and only if you use strict CBR settings and such.. MPEG2 most
certainly will not.

Rich