> +1 for deprecation of VP6 and clearing the way to open sourcing of JFXMedia. > > On a related note, you will soon need to support H.265/HEVC. HEVC apparently > also supports an alpha channel, so it may also address that concern. (See > http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.265-201504-I/en)
3D support too! Not sure how we'd handle that though... > All of this might be much easier to handle if JDK-8091063 is addressed (the > open sourcing of JFXMedia may assist with this). > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8091063 > > The brilliant guy that filed that issue nearly seven years ago was on to > something :-) > > Then legacy formats could be provided in optional downloads and new formats > can be supported without the need to integrate them within the JRE code. Yes, that would be wonderful! -DrD-