Saving MPEGs

Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Sat, 25 Sep 93 01:20:23 -0500


Terry Allen writes:
> I've taken a look at several of the MPEGs noticed recently in
> NCSA's "What's New With NCSA Mosaic," but could not find a
> way to save them. They seem just to disappear after they
> are displayed. When I retrieve a JPEG I am able to save it
> with xv. Is there a way to save these MPEGs?

The world needs a decent GUI-based MPEG player. In the meantime,
Binary Transfer Mode was intended for just that (soon to be
reincarnated as shift-button1, probably).

Cheers,
Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu