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Unread 04-03-2002, 22:19
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The only reason I can think of why Autodesk(note: Autodesk was the one making the ruling on this, as they're the ones doing the judging, not FIRST) would have chosen Cinepak over anything else is that they can guarantee that every system out there has it...Cinepak is included with just about every current version of Windows, and so everybody's got it. Opening up to a choice of codecs means that one of two scenarios would take place:
-every team would have to include an installer for the codec they used, and the judges at Autodesk would have to install all of them(possibly up to 700+!).
-some team would end up not getting judged because the file they sent in couldn't be read on the judges' machine.
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