[Tig] encoding for quicktime/web

[Rob Lingelbach]

please excuse this being a little off-topic, but it does have to do with
the TIG server.

it's been a while since I messed around with mime-types for apache
and browser playback.  I have a Mac Powerbook G4 running OS X
10.4.8.   I tried to encode, using one of the freeware rippers, a video
file that would play back in Quicktime 7.1.3.   Trying to play it back,
I was informed that some essential parts of Quicktime were missing,
and was directed to a website, which contained about 5 commercial
products for use with Quicktime.

I found one that worked to encode for MPEG4, the product is called
VisualHub (i have no connection with this product, and it is offered
as a demo for 30 days).  It worked for me to play back the video stream
in Quicktime, after I encoded it with H.264 and at 320 pixels, medium
quality.

now the subject turns to mime-types.  I uploaded the encoded video to
my server, and noticed that apache 2.x does not identify a mime-type of
video/mp4.   So I added it to /etc/mime.types and restarted apache.

Instead of a nice video playing via quicktime, I get binary garbage  
in the
browser.

Can someone advise (I've done a day's worth of googling to no avail)
how best to set up the mime-types, or a better encoding scheme to use  
with
VisualHub (it offers: iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, Flash...)

thanks a lot in advance.
Rob
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