I brought this up before, but have some additional information. The
"issue" is accessing video content in wmv format in Camino. I had
decided that one perfectly reasonable approach was with a product
called "flip4mac." This is a QuickTime component that allows any
application that can use the QuickTime architecture to play the file.
Camino refuses to do this, instead showing a broken plug-in icon. A
simple test scenario I set up on my website (it's funny video of xmas
lights around a house run amok) which displays the broken plug=in
icon in Camino:
http://paulc.com/test
Use my test link in Safari and it acts for all the world like a
QuickTime file... i.e. it uses the "native" controller" and the video
plays.
I liberally use the news sites on the web; I have been noticing that
more and more content at cnn.com is delivered in video (wmv) format.
Again, in Camino it doesn't even come close to working. Safari was
interesting in that it gave me a screen saying it couldn't detect
whether I had the correct version installed, but gave me an option to
simply play the video. Which it did quite nicely. Exiting Safari and
re-launching it now simply plays the video.
I understand the "Camino can't be everything to everybody" quite
well, but I also feel that this is a serious issue. I guess the
question is do the developers also think this?
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