[PIGMI] Windows search

[Kat Black]

We asked Ligos why they have not developed the codec beyond XP on PC
and why not for Intel Macs, and they want to, but they couldn't get
agreement from MS or Apple.

regs, Kat

On 28 December 2010 12:55, Paul Turbett (Black Lab Games)
<paul at blacklabgames.com.au> wrote:
> " some security flaw in Indeo that's been there for over 10yrs and that M$
> couldn't be bothered patching"
>
> Indeo was developed by Intel. Why is it up to "M$" to patch it??? Maybe "M$"
> don't have the source to patch??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pigmi-pigmi.org-bounces at lists.pigmi.org
> [mailto:pigmi-pigmi.org-bounces at lists.pigmi.org] On Behalf Of Kat Black
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 December 2010 11:27 AM
> To: pigmi at pigmi.org
> Subject: Re: [PIGMI] Windows search
>
> It hides some files, supposedly for your own good, hmpf.
>
> eg, Our VJing files are all formatted with Indeo 5.2 codec, which we
> cannot search with Vista or Win7 because apparently there's some
> security flaw in Indeo that's been there for over 10yrs and that M$
> couldn't be bothered patching - so they just don't let you search the
> files. It's still the best codec for what we do (smallest
> filesize:quality ratio, scales beautifully, etc).
>
> For that and a bunch of other reasons, we have just gone back to older
> laptops running XP for our VJing. I'd almost forgotten that it was
> possible to quickly search for my VJ filenames, after having to use
> awkward third-party searchware for the past couple of years to find
> particular files. SO happy to be back on XP for VJing. Using Win7 on a
> new laptop for everything else, and it's a big improvement on Vista,
> but the searching thing was definitely a problem for us too.
>
> Maybe that's not the issue, but could be worth investigating if it's
> just particular files refusing to Index?
>
> best, kat
>
> http://VJzoo.com
>
>
> On 28 December 2010 10:05, Andy Hawkins <andyhawkins at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>> I've had some success in adding indexes under the control panel for the
>> drives I want to check.  Indexing took a while.  I'm going back to the
>> source and reading how to do it from Microsoft's support site (of all
> places
>> : ) )
>>
>> Andy H.
>>
>> Or try using the start menu search:
>> Click start (bottom left) and in the box type your search. If you want
> more
>> advanced search then in the result I think there's an option for that.
>> -Dylan
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Joel Blackwell <joel at superfurious.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I assume F1 for help (hint hint), and make sure you're searching the
>>> non-indexed locations.
>>>
>>> I'm on Vista, so that's a guess ;)
>>>
>>> -Joel
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28/12/2010 8:31 AM, Andy Hawkins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So, to all those people that told me Windows 7 was great, never look
>>>> back ... how the f&#k do I search for anything? It just wont find simple
>>>> file I can see are there...
>>>>
>>>> Gahhhh!!!
>>>>
>>>> Andy H.
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