On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:18 AM, Allen Stare-IMM wrote:
> Problem: The Client wants minimal interference from the installer. No
> registration, no checking for new versions, etc. He barely wants to
> install
> Quicktime but we've explained that we need a player to show the videos.
Pimp slap him until his ears bleed. This is The Way Things Are. If he
cannot handle reality have him click his wittwe heews together three
times and say "There's no place like home".
Seriously, if you distribute the stand-alone installer (on the CD with
your app), at least no DL is required, and it may be possible to
license the player (though it would probably not exactly be cheap) and
thereby prevent that nagware dialog coming up periodically.
> And, perhaps the bigger question, what are my other options for
> cross-platformed videos? I don't know much about MPEG. Would it work
> on both
> platforms without external installations?
MPEG1 surely could, but you would have to have two separate Casts. On
Win you'd use something like the DirectMedia Xtra for playback -- and
thus have a Windows-only media Cast -- whereas for Mac you could use QT
-- the Mac-only Cast.
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