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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:39:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Scott Mace <smace@metal.ops.neosoft.com>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        ache@astral.msk.su, smace@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xanim 2.70.1 core dumps on .MOV
Message-ID:  <199510040439.XAA04842@metal.ops.neosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510040436.VAA02963@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Oct 3, 95 09:36:07 pm

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Mine doesn't core dump, it just says not support, but I do have
working sound support so maybe there is a problem with no
sound and it not supporting a file format?  (just wild guessing,
I havn't really looked at it :-)

> 
>  * The latest version has cinepak removed by request of Radius.
>  * 
>  * The README doesn't say why though...  I guess its a political
>  * thing, but who knows...
> 
> Oh, so you mean this .MOV file (in "Cinepak" format) doesn't run
> anymore on xanim because of political reasons?  If so,

Yes.

> 
> (1) We shouldn't go back to the older version, we have to honor the
>     decisions of the source developers.  People who have .MOV files
>     should find a viewer elsewhere (like on the 2.0.5R CDROM :)

right.

> 
> (2) It will be nice if we can fix it to exit and not core dump (gosh
>     it's even printing it out as "unsupported", why would it want to
>     run until it hits a null pointer, fercristssake)....
> 
> Satoshi
> 




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