@ben: excellent point! i hadnt thought about the HTML embed route, that's
def. something to think about. i want to try it actually just to see what
happens.
@jon: i'm not familiar with libavec but that is def something to think about
and look into as well.
it seems like apollo is going to have to support the other video formats at
some point to really compete with other desktop authoring environments. also
what about artemis right? seems like there may be a way to do something
similar for video... (all of this total speculation here too btw, just
thinking out loud with you guys.)
a little off the original subject, i think it's very cool that this is the
first app by adobe in apollo. my suspicion is that this is going to help get
the runtime out there.
thanks again for the replies guys, awesome input!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??
On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:49 PM, ben gomez farrell wrote:
I'd say it stands a decent chance of supporting a bunch of formats
eventually. Remember this thing is built on Apollo, and you can build
your Apollo app with HTML. Maybe Apollo won't support HTML pages with
plugins (except for Flash) at launch, but it would be in their best
interest to render webpages as they appear in your browser, which means
bringing in Quicktime support and others.
Just speculation though!
Initially there is not going to be any support for any motion video
format other than FLV. In the 1.0 release, Adobe 'might' include the
ability to run external applications to handle a file of a certain type,
but it definitely won't be integrated into the application any time soon.
Although WebKit includes support for plugin libraries, Adobe might be
getting itself into a legal quagmire if it tried to 'pipe' the video data
through any other player plugin (WMP, Quicktime, Real) into it's own
interface. That remains to be seen though.
All they'd really need to do to kill other media players would be to add
support for the libavec libraries (FFMpeg and MPlayer) and they'd be able
to playback a few hundred different formats.
Definitely going to be interesting though ...
- jon
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