Quicktime and the Snow Leopard

[Richmond Mathewson]

Flash - Smash!  Poo!
I have a feeling that if we all make an effort we can leverage the revLets
and the web plug-in
to leave Flash far behind.

And, while we are on the subject; there are other, less obvious,ways to
provide animation
and so on on RR. A while back (wait until I am back in Bulgaria to reference
my stack on
this) I found that one can export a movie as a series of still images,
import them on some
hidden card, and then set them through a repeat loop as icons for a button
or imagedata
or, or, or . . . there are quite a few possibilities (animated GIFS ???):
the problem with this
method is that sound gets lost.

As far as I can see just now the main things that would be 'lost' without
the QT leverage would
be synchronised sound with 'movies' and QTVR.

So, as far as I can see, if one makes a bit of an effort one should be able
to do all the things that
RR currently gets via QT without QT. What is needed is for US, ALL to spend
a bit of time
running up example stacks on how this can be done.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have to agree with François.
>
> There is no way that RunRev on their own could produce a multimedia
> tool to equal QT. We just have to hope that QT will be developed in
> such a way that in the future it will still work with those tools that
> edit QT movies.  It's a poor show that Apple does not provide any idea
> about where QT is going, 18 months after QT X was first announced to
> developers.  When this is seen along with the deprecation of past
> development information, there is not much else than hope.  It may be
> that there will be a new set of cross-platform APIs, but there is no
> sign of that.
>
> Perhaps it is time that RunRev started to look at providing a Flash
> player object.  After all, there are open source actionscript
> compilers, and quite a few open source development tools for Flash.
> At least that would reduce the dependency on Quicktime alone.
>
> Bernard
>
> 2009/9/9 François Chaplais <francois.chaplais at mines-paristech.fr>:
> >
> > Le 9 sept. 09, à 11:28, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :
> >
> >> I believe it is in Runtime Revolution's interests to free themselves
> from
> >> a
> >> dependence
> >> on Quicktime; preferably "rolling their own" stuff to handle multimedia:
>
> > This is inconsistent. QTX is Apple rewriting as set of API for Quicktime;
> > and, as for most software products, the first release is not fully
> > satisfying.
> >  You expect runrev, whose core expertise, IMHO, is not video, to do a
> better
> > job at it: starting from scratch to produce their own multimedia package.
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