Thanks to the efficiency of the free market and the effectiveness of the US patent system in spurring innovation, the market dominant operating systems (Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X) use incompatible and patent-encumbered video formats, and Linux users must break the law to view either.
The best solution I arrived at was to encode all videos with h264 in MPEG-4 containers. These play very well in Quicktime, so they'll work fine out of the box on Macs and just as well on Windows, if you have Quicktime for Windows installed. On Linux you'll probably need to download codecs from a less enlightened nation. Google appropriately, e.g. “opensuse+mpeg4+codec”.
Just to be safe, I've provided the most important movie (the velocity/state-space split-screen) in four formats, and the T=35.86 periodic orbit in flash format.
The .ogg file is “Ogg Theora,” an open-source, unencumbered video format and container. If you can't view any of those, we're really in trouble!
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Last modified: Mon Dec 3 00:12:13 IST 2007
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