Re: What is with those LOUSY cine tiffs from spies???

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:01:11 -0500, "Gregg Woodcock" <woodcock@sisna.com> wrote:

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Neil Bradley" <nb@synthcom.com>
>To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
>Cc: <aek@wiretap.spies.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:47 PM
>Subject: Re: VECTOR: What is with those LOUSY cine tiffs from spies???
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>> > > I haven't had any trouble with these. Perhaps you may need a newer
>version
>> > of
>> > > QuickTime..
>> > OK, I was ambiguous in my initial description. I *am* able to view the
>> > specific file mentioned but am *not* able to view most of the other
>service
>> > bulletins. You would think one of those scumbag CD Burner dudes would
>have
>> > been kind enough to report this to Al (as I am) when he found it.
>Beware of
>> > playing around with these files because they have the ability to eat up
>all
>> > your virtual memory and hang or crash Windows.
>> > Below is a COMPLETE list of dead and dangerous tiff files:
>> > 16level.TIFF (THIS IS THE WORST ONE)
>>
>> Haven't found one yet that doesn't display, Gregg. You might not want to
>> be so harsh in saying that they're broken or don't work when in fact the
>> problem is with your system. They view fine here, so obviously the files
>> are not corrupt or bad. Have you tried another viewer?
>>
>> They do view here, so if you're having problems, it's a limitation of your
>> system and/or configuration and not of the files themselves. Once you
>> accept that, it all becomes much easier. ;-0
>
>I am using a semi-current version of QuickTime but I guess it is time to
>upgrade or make a switch. Not displaying is one thing but I am shocked that
>a valid file format causes such horrible problems with a normally excellent
>program.

You need to reverse your perspective here. You should be shocked that a program
acts so horribly while trying to display a valid file format. ;-)

>I guess it all has to do with the fact that it runs under the
>garbage heap OS of Windows...

Running Quicktime? I'm surprised your machine runs at all...(I guess it doesn't
when trying to display .TIF's eh? ;-)

I'm not the biggest supporter of Windows on earth, but I can guarantee you it's
not Windows crashing your machine, it's Quicktime.

The first thing Quicktime does is register itself as the default viewer for
everything. The second thing it does is crash when it tries to display anything.
This has been my experience. It's second only to Realplayer which has to be
worst use of RAM in the history of programming.

It's too bad, Quicktime has some cool virtual formats, now if they can only hire
some, programmers that know Windows, they might have a decent product someday.
I swear they're running some kind of Macintosh emulator on Windows, to run
Quicktime.

Quicktime should be used for .MOV files only. It's really all it understands.

This is probably getting way off topic. You should download some of the
suggested programs and give them a try and see which one you like. I'm sure
they're all decent programs. (They at least can all display a CCITT Fax 4
compressed .TIF file.)

-Zonn
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Received on Tue Jul 9 23:16:48 2002