Comment by etatester
11 hours ago
Codecs have been a thing on both major OSes, Windows Media Player could open DivX and QuickTime could open MKV. I think they were only limited to videos however.
11 hours ago
Codecs have been a thing on both major OSes, Windows Media Player could open DivX and QuickTime could open MKV. I think they were only limited to videos however.
That's true, Windows has had an OS-managed codec system since 3.x. Only applies to video and audio formats, though, not a general system for any data type.
Gives me fun memories of installing the Intel Indeo codec on Windows 3.x and Windows 95 PCs to play videos from a CD-based encyclopedia.
I think QuickTime 7 had that capability (I remember installing a codec to make it play wmv video) but Apple removed the plugin architecture in QuickTime X.