Dan,
You might want to reread your previous post. Saying "Windows remains
an iffy platform for the relianble deployment of rich media apps" is a
fairly ridiculous statement. There are plenty of 'Rich Media Apps'
built and running for Windows including those built by Apple Computer.
I know you ha
On Sep 15, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Sivikatirswami,
You know, the problem may not be Windows, but Apple's implementation
of Quicktime on PC's.
I second this. I have visited the QT for Windows team... without
saying more, this visit explains a lot! Making QT run perfectly on
Chipp,
It's certainly possible that it's Quicktime's fault... but I hardly
think a leak in Safari qualifies as evidence. I'm all for equal
opportunity vendor bashing, but really...
- Brian
You know, the problem may not be Windows, but Apple's implementation
of Quicktime on PC's. Chris has
On Sep 16, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Trevor... I'll try that "playrate" but... what's behind your thinking?
On that one... I like to know the "why" if it can be known.
This has fixed problems for people with streaming movies on OS X in
the past. I suggest it as I am pretty su
Chipp Walters wrote:
Sivikatirswami,
You know, the problem may not be Windows, but Apple's implementation
of Quicktime on PC's.
Yes, this is definitely the area where the problem lies, to be sure.
But, simply to throw more gasoline on that debate doesn't
get us anything (right, I threw some o
While what you say is probably true, Chipp, none of that obviates
Sivikatirswami's main issue that there are so many permutations and
combinations of devices and drivers for Windows that debugging or supporting
software designed to deal with rich media on that platform is iffy. I have a
good frien
Sivikatirswami,
You know, the problem may not be Windows, but Apple's implementation
of Quicktime on PC's. Chris has mentioned to me there is a very large
memory leak in Safari that Apple has known about for a long time, but
is reticent to fix (something about how Objective-C multi-threads yada
y
On Sep 15, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
But the simple "act" of setting a Revolution player to stream
a remote URL "http://somedomain.com/someSoundOrMovie.mov.mp3/";
seems to be an "iffy" proposition. I don't see how you can
fix code that is only two lines:
set the filename of player
Dan Shafer was kind enough to take the time to fill me in on possible
issues on Windows
machines. What nightmare! He mentioned something called "Dr. Watson"
So I then went a-sleuthing for the aforesaid good Doctor on line
and was appalled to see all the possible things that could go wrong
that
