--- In [email protected], Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > right... you had to drag the stuff in and it automatically converts. > But it still had to convert. Its just that the interface was simple > and intuitive. I would think that iTunes will try to make the process > roughly the same for video on the iPod. > > -Josh > Perhaps I confused what Andreas was saying. I thought he meant software authors should only provide two codecs and have the user figure out the rest. He may have meant a content authors, in which case I'm mistaken.
On software, I think it should automaticaly update perpetually and across platforms. It should always check for new updates. And when there's a new version, it should load a base updater with the option to purchase the upgrade. For different OSes software should have installed base updaters for multiple platforms as much as possible, so when in the future someone loads OS X on a system that also has Win XP. Then the software would give the option to purchase online the OS X version, download and install it. -- Enric > > On 1/15/06, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Those authors will have limited sales or go out of business. The > > > > average user doesn't want another step to figure out a codec to make > > > > their video work. They want it to simply work and will bypass > > > > products that requires additional work. > > > > > > Not necessarily true. What did you have to do to get your CDs on > > your iPod? > > > > > > -Josh > > > > I put the CD in my drive, the songs appear in iTunes with the CD icon. > > I drag the songs to the Library. They automaticaly convert. When I > > plugin my iPod the songs automaticaly update to the iPod. No > > additional codecs to run, no outside software to figure out through > > manuals or website instructions. Insert, drag, plugin -- standard and > > mainly intuitive human actions. > > > > -- Enric > > > > > > > > > > > On 1/15/06, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Andreas Haugstrup" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Maybe it's because Michael was in hard disagreement with me and > > > > others in > > > > > that last long long thread on the vertigo list. I said then and > > still > > > > > think it should be the user's responsibility that content plays on > > > > their > > > > > device, not the author's. Ie. I provide only one or two formats and > > > > the > > > > > user can then convert to whatever format suits his needs, because he > > > > is > > > > > the only one who knows what fits him. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Those authors will have limited sales or go out of business. The > > > > average user doesn't want another step to figure out a codec to make > > > > their video work. They want it to simply work and will bypass > > > > products that requires additional work. > > > > > > > > -- Enric > > > > > > > > > I'm glad Apple agrees with me. Although I imagine the encoding time > > > > is a > > > > > big turn-off unless it happens in the background. > > > > > > > > > > And for the record: I think you're the first person to call the QT > > > > Pro GUI > > > > > "nice". Simple, certainly. Nice... Not so much. :o) > > > > > > > > > > - Andreas > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:04:35 +0100, Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > This is true. Its in their features list on the download page for > > > > iTunes. > > > > > > Why would you be in disbelief here? Seems like a natural > > feature and > > > > > > the export option is built into QT Pro. BTW, all the features > > of QT > > > > > > Pro are accessible from the Quicktime API. This means that > > when you > > > > > > buy QT Pro you're buying nothing other than the convenience of > > > > > > accessing features that were already on your computer through > > a nice > > > > > > and simple GUI (which I still think is worth it). > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > > > > > > Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
