[Info-vax] Webinar "AUTOGEN and SYSGEN"

[Dirk Munk]

Paul Sture wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:59:01 +0000, VAXman- wrote:
>
>> In article
>> <17223767.285.1335090309424.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums at ynbv36>, Bart
>> Zorn<bart.zorn at gmail.com>  writes:
>>> I have not attended the webinar held on January 28 titled "AUTOGEN and
>>> SYSG= EN : History and architecture.". I downloaded both the PDF and the
>>> WMV file=
>>> as posted on openvms.org. I am not able to play the WMV file: VLC on
>>> both =
>>> OS X and Windows cannot play it and Windows Media Player can play it but
>>> th= ere are two voices speaking at the same time about different points
>>> of the = presentation.
>
> Here is what VLC 1.1.12 tells me:
>
> "No suitable decoder module:
> VLC does not support the audio or video format "MSS2". Unfortunately
> there is no way for you to fix this."
>

This is what Mediainfo tells me:

Format                                   : Windows Media
File size                                : 51.1 MiB
Duration                                 : 1h 1mn
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 116 Kbps
Maximum Overall bit rate                 : 296 Kbps
Movie name                               : AUTOGEN
Encoded date                             : UTC 2012-03-28 15:28:08.841

Video
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : Windows Media
Codec ID                                 : MSS2
Codec ID/Info                            : Windows Media 9
Description of the codec                 : Windows Media Video 9 Screen
Duration                                 : 1h 1mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 250 Kbps
Width                                    : 1 366 pixels
Height                                   : 768 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 10.000 fps
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.024
Stream size                              : 110 MiB
Language                                 : English (US)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : WMA
Format version                           : Version 2
Codec ID                                 : 161
Codec ID/Info                            : Windows Media Audio
Description of the codec                 : Windows Media Audio 9.2 -  32 
kbps, 44 kHz, mono (A/V) 1-pass CBR
Duration                                 : 1h 1mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 32.0 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 14.1 MiB (28%)
Language                                 : English (US)

It is indeed a obscure format, and a rather strange frame rate as well. 
In my view they should use a H.264 codec in a .mkv container, that is 
the defacto modern way of creating a video clip.

>> Apple Computer is almost a $1T business today.  iToys (iPad, iPod and
>> iPhone) and similar (Linux/Android) devices are *the* audio/video link
>> to information today in the 21st Century.
>
> Precisely. Podcast format would do, then everyone could watch it, yay
> verily, even on Windows too :-)
>
>> Please, HP and Connect should put out information like this in
>> non-prorietary formats before making it available for download.
>> Otherwise it's just a total waste of bandwidth and time!
>
> Hear hear.  For sure I can watch it on a Windows machine, but that ties
> me to a desk.
>