Comments on: 2008 Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting: Building Up a Righteous Posterity

By: mohammed rehaan khan

mohammed rehaan khan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:42:48 +0000

plz send media talk

By: Travis Atkinson

Travis Atkinson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:22:11 +0000

Just another observation with regard to the comment on Quicktime files. I appreciate all of the work that goes into making these files available and want to say thank you, though I have to question the 5% use Mac proposition. While I won’t argue the Mac usage itself I know that myself and quite a few others in the ward like to have these for viewing on our iPods and considering they own about 75% marketshare in portable players I would think iPod compatible files would be a priority. Thanks for listening and keep up the good work.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:54:36 +0000

Dear LDS Web Guy,

I don’t want to seem rude or pushy but I am curious to know why you don’t just issue everything in Quicktime if it is already cross platform? It has a good 50% of the market (both PC and Mac ). It is not just about mac users although I am very surprised that you state only 5% of visitors to LDS websites are mac users. BYU alone has about 30% of the student body on macs. Is the 5% an outdated statistic? My ward in Florida has a large number of families with macs.

By: Matt Rasmussen

Matt Rasmussen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:19:30 +0000

Larry,

Thanks for letting us know these are available. I love listening to the Apostles and all Church content.

On a side note, what’s the deal with these file sizes? 1MB per minute? I thought speeches would be 64 Kbps but these are 128. Even with cable broadband it takes quite a while to download these and takes up too much space on my player. No, I don’t need an 80Gig Ipod. Just wondering if you could clarify the change.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:28:48 +0000

Dear Lds web guy,

Thanks. But just a curiousity question. If QuickTime is already cross platform, why not make that the standard for all the files?

Michael

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:22:37 +0000

I need to be more patient, thanks!

By: ldswebguy

ldswebguy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:54:48 +0000

We plan to create the QuickTime files, but haven’t done so yet. With only 5% of the users of LDS.org on Macs, it has to be a lower priority.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:36:50 +0000

Lee, thanks for your suggestion, but the windows media video files do not work with my iPod. I could convert and download the windows media file (and probably will), but the issue is lack of support for mp4.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:08:30 +0000

I think the only thing different in the paid version is that you can edit the video or export it to different formats, the free version lets you watch it as if you were just watching a regular quicktime video.
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_compare.htm

It may not be the ideal solution, but it has worked well for me.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:30:50 +0000

Lee, I am familiar with flip 4 mac but it does work seemlessly and they charge you money to access all the benefits of the application. The Church IT area had already committed itself last year to cross platform uniformity. Both the Church and BYU sites were very windows-oriented over the past two decades to the exclusion of other platforms. So I am confused as to why they are reverting to using window-only files instead of open source.