On Nov 1, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Your post would indicate "all is well with QT, just don't expect to
make chapatis with it."
Well, I don't know if I would say all is well with QT but it is
moving forward. I imagine the QT team has to make decisions and
allocate resources like everyone else and overhauling audio/video
architecture appears to be the primary focus right now.
But I think Stephan's original point
though is still good, answer to Greg's issues:
identify some subset of functions we would
like to have in QT that are now only available in Flash and tell
Apple about it.
It is definitely a good idea to let them know what you want. Just
some history on this though - Interactive QT developers (LiveStage
Pro users mainly) have been lobbying Apple for interactive updates
for a long time. I think the millions of iTunes users hold more sway
when deciding where development dollars go though :-) Maybe once
this audio/visual stuff gets sorted out that will change. Who knows.
e.g. I didn't see any reference to SMIL (my chapati) in the
"Directions and Shifts of Emphasis in Quicktime 7" (yes -- very
interesting
and encouraging to read that...)
Goal would be: to use XML to "talk" to the video region in a
streamed context
in ways that can be scripted vs sitting in Final Cut Pro and
building it all into a
single .mov file. If QT SMIL support is not advancing, is there
an alternative that accomplishes the same thing?
I guess that is a question for Apple.
SMIL falls into the interactive realm I believe and so it would
appears it isn't receiving any love right now. Very unfortunate as
it is a great way to combine media. Whether there is an alternative
depends on what you are trying to do with SMIL. If you just want to
combine multiple clips into a single movie without editing in Final
Cut Pro then you could may be able to automate that in QuickTime Pro
or Revolution with the EnhancedQT external.
Re the streaming problem on some of our windows users machines.
I've isolated it to differences in connectivity that QT player can
handle, but which the Rev Player object cannot. I'm going to
get a bit more info from our users and will post a BugZilla
on it when we have the data...
I'm not privy to the depth of relationship between Rev Engineers
and Apples QT team, but would hope that it got really "tight."
to help solve such issues.
I don't know the answer to this either but I do know that there are
QuickTime engineers who have a soft spot for Revolution. There are
still engineers (at least one) who have been with QT since being
moved there from the HyperCard team. I ran into a friend of his (who
also worked on the HyperCard team) while demoing software at a
University. The software was made in Revolution and he was really
excited to see that HyperCard was still alive in a sense and how
people were creating things with it.
You main point is good:
QT looks very healthy on both platforms for the future, no need to
"fret."
That is how it appears to me.
Especially if one is going to create desktop apps then the
Revolution Framework
with QT embedded will let us do just about anything we want that we
might
try in Flash...
Of course it depends on what you want to do with Flash but for what I
do the answer is yes. QuickTime is definitely making strides in the
QT Framework (lots of Windows integration improvements in QT 7 so it
appears to be a focus) so apps that depend on that QuickTime seem to
be in good hands.
--
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems - www.bluemangolearning.com
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