Testing - JMF compatible media files

A number of people have asked after media files to check JMF based media projects.
Here is a small selection of videos that have all been tested and seen to run in the Performance Pack version of JMStudio. At the moment it includes 2 MOVs and 2 MPEGs. None of them have a soundtrack - it is just video.
[http://www.esnips.com/web/jmfvideo/]
Notes:
These animations are provided for software testing only. They are not available for redistribution, or any other use, without the author's written permission.
The raw video files were wrapped up as Zip files in order to prevent automatic conversion to another format (for which I have no player on this machine - and which is sure not 'JMF compatible').
If anybody knows a file upload site that will not mess with the file types, and better still, will provide a constant and direct URL (no 'click thru' rubbish) where it can even be pulled direct by a Java app., let me know.
Edit 1:
Added '10 dukes' - up for whoever can provide the first link to a 'file site' as described above.
Edited by: AndrewThompson64 on May 21, 2008 10:13 AM

Avi's and mpg's are pretty safe. Wmv's and .mov's won't sync.
Wyrenut
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