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I agree that my short-term solution poses a security risk, but the inability
to play my archived movies had effectively deleted my work product from
1999-2004. This was not recoverable without reinstalling an earlier version
of the OS in order to downgrade Quicktime. Obviously, this is not the best
strategy.
Apple explicitly advertises legacy support for _all_ previous Quicktime
codecs. This is an extremely appealing feature when legacy access to old
scientific data is at issue. However, this is currently false. If Apple
intends to discontinue/disable old codecs, they should make this apparent in
the upgrade notes, so that users may convert their movies _before_ their
ability to convert them is deleted.
I cannot imagine any sane individual who would enjoy the prospect of
retroactively re-encoding 5 years worth of compiled imaging data solely to
maintain legacy access.
So, I seek advice: Are there industry-standard lossless codecs that are
expected to be supported for 10-20 years? What are the best options for
long-term storage of imaging data? What resources are available that discuss
the costs and benefits of various formats vis a vis scientific data?
Best regards,
Steve Bunnell
On 1/25/08 1:16 PM, "Mathieu Marchand" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>
> To comment the previous post,
>
> Everybody should be aware that using any other version than the latest
> available Quicktime is a major security risk, on both Mac and Windows.
>
> The last 7.3, 7.3.1 and 7.4 updates of Quicktime corrected some CRITICAL
> flaws:
> http://secunia.com/advisories/28502/
> http://secunia.com/advisories/28092/
> http://secunia.com/advisories/27755/
> http://secunia.com/advisories/27523/
> and these are the flaws for only the past 3 months
>
> These flaws are rated "extremely critical" and could give an attacker
> remote access on your system just by visiting a malicious website with
> your favorite browser.
> Since Quicktime 7.2 and later does not support Windows 2000 any more,
> I recommend to uninstall Quicktime on computers running Windows 2000.
>
> Support for old codecs like "animation" for quicktime or "cinepak" for
> vista is broken or problematic and people should stop using them, and
> plan to convert old movies to more recent codec. "Codec Packs" can
> sometimes solve your problem, but they usually have major stability /
> legality / security risks attached to them. They can introduce new
> problems, too (for example: the Perian codec pack for MacOS brakes the
> play out of 'ARAW' coded avi files including avi files generated by
> ImageJ).
>
> Picking a codec is a complex issue and there is no easy choice. It is
> something worth discussing with a specialist to make the best decision
> for your situation.
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