Hello Stephen
On 05-Jan-01, you wrote:
>
> Hello Ingo
>
> On 05-Jan-01, you wrote:
>
>>
>>> If you're holding out for Java, RealAudio and modern QT playback, I
>>> suspect you're in for a long wait.
>>
>> At least QT should be easy. There is a good QT-Player (SoftCinema)
>> avilable. He just had to implement it as a plugin. Think I gonna ask
>> him...
>
> It wasn't so much the technicalities of a Quicktime plugin, but rather the
> availabilty and implementation of the various codecs. I haven't used
> SoftCinema because I don't have PowerPC, but I suspect the more modern
> codecs aren't supported.
IMO that's not really the problem, the real problem is the fact that most of
these players do strange tricks to get increased performance, most of them
are programs unto themselves (i.e. there are no external codecs, just a big
program) and implementing them as plugins would leave you with two big
applications to update: your movie player AND it's plugin.
Is there a movie player that makes use of external, library based codecs? Or
even stores it's main decoding routines in a library? If so, it would make
the best plugins as they share code. Look how APDF is based on external
libraries to add functionality.
I'd rather have a lean plugin for my browser, than an entire movieplayer
on my system TWICE (imagine playing a movie from a CD *and* viewing a
Quicktime movie embedded in a webpage. Loading C:MoviePlayer and
also V:Plugins/MoviePlayer.plugin without them sharing resources would
be a huge waste)
Thanks
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Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Website http://www.kittycat.co.uk
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