----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "illiminable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Flac-dev] Quicktime + FLAC?
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 01:21:03PM +0800, illiminable wrote:
I had a look a few times for detailed info on quicktime, and it all looked
pretty painful.
It didn't look that bad to me; just a lot of time figuring out how you're supposed to do things. But then, I have some background in MacOS programming.
Hehe... yeah... after you figure it out... it's just the simple matter of coding it :)
But as with directshow, figuring out how it works is by far the most difficult and time consuming thing ! At least with directshow there is a few hundred thousand pages of docs you can search through.
For quicktime... i've come up with a dozen or so .pdf's, which don't really tell me what i need to know ! Though i admit, it was a pretty half-hearted attempt i made to search just to see what i was up against.
However, people in the past have hit bugs pretty fast. That's part of why I've not been inspired to try. Things may well be better now, so please do give it a go.
But it's certainly one of those things that has been on my really long
like-to-do list. Since i primarily use iTunes (under windows) for audio, it
would be nice to be able to put my various .ogg files in the same playlist
as the rest of my music.
Have you tried the plugins at http://qtcomponents.sf.net/ ? They work for me (with vorbis, I've not tried speex) with iTunes on MacOS X. The 'load everything into memory' hack is annoying, but better than nothing.
I tried the vorbis one once, it worked ok... it's probably a lot better now.
Though i'd really like a unified solution, rather than 4 or five different plug-ins which are 75% the same all doing their own thing. And also the ability to add new codecs easily without writing the entire thing each time.
Short-term, yeah it's better than nothing, but long-term i think a unified solution would be a lot better.
Zen.
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