Saving MPEGs

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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 93 01:20:23 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
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Subject: Saving MPEGs
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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
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