Is Rev too "Mac focused"?

[Troy Rollins]

On Aug 7, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Stephen King wrote:

> For me, reliance on 3rd party QT is a *big* issue.

This is true, and frequently heard with all tools that use multimedia - 
from the Windows side of things. It is a non-issue on Mac, and wouldn't 
even qualify as "third party." Consider that, for cross-platform 
compatibility, RealBasic and Director both rely on QuickTime as well.

QuickTime is the only multimedia "enabling technology" which endeavors 
to provide full cross platform parity. Writing an equivalent 
independent library is a HUGE non-trivial task considering the shear 
amount of media types which must be supported. Virtually all authoring 
environments rely on QT for good reason - it puts the costs, tasks and 
responsibility for maintaining this entire segment of functionality on 
Apple. I'm sure if Microsoft were to bother itself with providing such 
a technology for both platforms, with an identical feature set, it 
would be something which could be considered. But they don't, and 
aren't likely to.

Out of curiosity, what functionality specifically do you need which 
then requires QuickTime? Rev can obviously run happily without it, and 
some basic media types are even supported in that case - but beyond 
that, QuickTime is required to do the heavy lifting.

And, I take it that one of the issues is that the Rev installer doesn't 
invoke the QuickTime installer? That should seem to be resolvable...
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Troy
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