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Old November 9th, 2005, 08:52 PM
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On2 Vp7 codec for OS X?

I've been given some content encoded with on2 VP7.
The dum-dums that want me to view (and comment) on the content point me to on2's website for a free download of the codec which is windows only!

Does anyone know of a way to view these files on my mac? I'd hate to go into work on a day that I am off to do someone a favor lol
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on2 vp7? Are you sure. Apple supports on2 vp3 on the Mac. You can download it as a third-party QuickTime codec through the QuickTime Player Preferences pane. on2 vp7 seems to be confined to uses outside the USA and only for Windows.
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Old November 10th, 2005, 07:49 AM
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I was able to download VP7 personal (for windows) - no mac download on their site
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I am trying too

Searching the web for a solution. If you find one please come here and share it with us. I will do the same.
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Old July 25th, 2007, 02:57 AM
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It's possible that MPlayer will be able to play VP7 video if you install the separate codec pack available at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html . Judging by the dates on their change log, it looks like only the Intel version would support VP7. It's also possible that particular codec is only supported on Windows — I'm not quite sure, and I can't test it myself since I have no VP7 movies to try.
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Old July 25th, 2007, 05:22 AM
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I have installed mplayer

Thanks for replying i did install mplayer before I got your message actually. I tried to play the movie in Quicktime and in Firefox and it did not work. Well I got sound only in QT. I do not have Intel. Running 10.4.10 on a G5.

Mplayer is not a stand alone player. It exists in the System somewhere. I am not geeky enough to really understand how it works.

I downloaded an avi movie from bit torrent (which I am also new to). It is nearly 300mb. If you Skype or MSN I could do a file transfer if you like. My MSN addy is gypsyfreedomrose@hotmail.com and Skype name is djididjidi.

I thought I might put this file on a disk and ask one of my Windows friends to convert it for me as it is something I would really like to see and also took ages to download.

I saw on sourceforge that the very latest mplayer should do vp7 but you have to compile it from source code. And while I know what that means, I don't know that I could do it easily - I think it would be too much to learn how to do actually. I'm not a programmer though I do know a little unix (still in nappies as far as that goes).

Once again - thank you.

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Re: MPlayer-1.0pre8

<http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20060611.221457.b1e9ef97.en.html>

It says:
"Decoders:
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* On2 VP7 video decoder via binary DLL
... "

Maybe my rice-paper-zen-geek-guru Sascha will help me to learn some more Unix and compile this thing on my system to see if it works.

Hope this info is useful to someone

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Old July 25th, 2007, 05:27 AM
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Oops - sorry it is a stand alone player
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Old July 25th, 2007, 06:34 AM
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I was wrong - Mplayer is a standalone app - I was suffering from information overload at the time of writing.
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