[MPlayer-advusers] another java movie format

[The Wanderer]

Roberto Togni wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 04:17:20 -0400 compn <tempn at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> orig url: http://www.actonbb.com/contents/health/0501shape1_health/

> Those videos are streamed using applet from ubicast
> (www.ubicast.com). video unknown, audio could be vorbis (at least
> looking at some strings in the .w1 video), container unknown. If
> someone speaking japanese can have a look at their homepage maybe
> they tell something about the codec used.

Looking at the Ubicast site, I'm led quickly to the download page for
the titular product (currently version 3.8). The feature list talks
about "player install unnecessary" and "playback possible on Macintosh,
Windows, Linux" and "DRM built in" and "video portal" and "content
management" and so forth, but makes no mention of technical details; the
FAQ page linked in the sidebar may be a little more promising, but looks
like a headache even just at a glance, and I don't think I'll get to it
right now.

If you'd like to try to pick up where I left off, rather than waiting
for me to give it another to, the URL of the FAQ page is
http://v3.ubicast.com/modules/xoopsfaq/ and most of the heavy lifting of
translating can be done by WWWJDIC at
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?9T

Although I could in fact have done the kanji lookup (etc.) I needed to
read the pages of the site on my own, it's just so much easier and
faster to paste the text into WWWJDIC; I still had to do a lot of
fill-in, it just translates any chunks it recognizes without trying to
link them together, but even someone with only a rudimentary knowledge
of Japanese can quickly get the gist of an amazing number of things with
its aid.

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