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...sorry but I haven't followed your URL as I do not follow any
tinyurl.com link for security reasons, perhaps you could post the
full URL?

Not really on topic, but if you prefix tinyurl with "preview."
you'll be taken to the tinyurl page first and it will tell you
where you're going if you follow the link. For example, in this
case, you'd use http://preview.tinyurl.com/5ppn4c

Hope it helps.


No, not really! One still needs to *go via* the 'tinyurl' web
server...

Some people are really hard to please. What is it about the tinyurl
server that upsets you?

I don't trust it or those behind it, why can't people just post the
original URL, what is the problem with that - surely it's no more
difficult to copy and paste the original URL than getting and then
posting one of these shorter URLs? If people want *me* to follow a
URL, so that *I might help them*, then they either do it my way or
they don't get the help they might otherwise get (and I'm sure than
I'm not the only person who thinks that way either)...
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Isn't this all a bit 'off topic'?

Robin

Some url's can be 4 lines long and it only needs a space to get in it to
stop it working.

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But Being a Yorkshire man is as close as you can get.

"Trev" trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM wrote in message
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Some url's can be 4 lines long and it only needs a space to get in
it to stop it working.


But all can be 'reconstructed', next....

"Jerry" wrote in message
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"G Hardy" wrote in message
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"Jerry" wrote in message
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"G Hardy" wrote in message
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...sorry but I haven't followed your URL as I do not follow any
tinyurl.com link for security reasons, perhaps you could post the full
URL?

Not really on topic, but if you prefix tinyurl with "preview." you'll
be taken to the tinyurl page first and it will tell you where you're
going if you follow the link. For example, in this case, you'd use
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5ppn4c

Hope it helps.


No, not really! One still needs to *go via* the 'tinyurl' web server...

Some people are really hard to please. What is it about the tinyurl
server that upsets you?

I don't trust it or those behind it, why can't people just post the
original URL, what is the problem with that - surely it's no more
difficult to copy and paste the original URL than getting and then posting
one of these shorter URLs? If people want *me* to follow a URL, so that *I
might help them*, then they either do it my way or they don't get the help
they might otherwise get


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Thanks all.

Here is the full link if you want to read it Jerry.


http://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/so...i=&p_topview=1
























(and I'm sure than
I'm not the only person who thinks that way either)...
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Wikipedia: the Internet equivalent of
Hyde Park and 'speakers corner'...

"Dub" wrote in message
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Thanks all.

Here is the full link if you want to read it Jerry.

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Well according to that page it's a simple codec issue, something that
you could be faced with in *any* other editors, there are open codecs
(MPG type1, as used in authoring VCD, being the most obvious) and
commercial codecs (Dvix being an example), trail versions of
programmes can have all sorts of limitations due to the non payment of
licences whilst not all paid-for software contains all the commercial
codecs - this is especially true of some of the more recent or obscure
codec. Basically if you need to use a commercial codec that has not
been inclued you need to buy a licence from the codec provider.
Something else the novice needs to be aware of, just because you can
play a file using a certain (commercial) codec it doesn't follow that
you can create a new media file using that codec as there are often
both play only versions and play/write versions IYSWIM.

What you need to check is what actual codec you need, "AVI" is just a
wrapper (as Tony Morgan would say), if you don't have it already then
I suggest you download a copy of Gspot http://gspot.headbands.com/
(freeware), 'open' the media file in that software and then be guided
by the information extracted/given.
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