Interoperability of decoders is useful in some important ways: Very useful for moving data around in a workflow. Very useful for moving data to devices that support limited interactivity (iPod). Very useful if you want to 'just make one darned file many people can play'. Very useful if you want to evangelize a format to fascilitate an interoperable ecology of tools and devices.
Interoperability of decoders is remarkably unuseful for content producers building an integrated user experience. Not being able to rely on additional player functionality beyond linear playback and predictable user experience (can the user scrub? how much space is required in a layout for controls? can I arbitrate between different user experiences detecting the playback environment? Can I do even basic interactivity like clickable endframes and all the less obvious stuff you need to make that really useful etc.) makes the promise of 'reliably generic decode' limited.
Every single generic and ubiquitous playback standard is, by necessity, 'dummed down' to a level that limits creativity and, in almost all cases, accessibility.
Interoperability of decoders is much more a 'geek' and 'top level business analysis' problem and much less a content problem.
- Jon
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On Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:34 PM, Harry <email@hidden> wrote:
>Hi Andrea
>
>Thanks for your comments (and you too Charles); but, I just wanted to
>know if :
>" Anyone using the Core AVC decoder? "
>
>I assumed people here would understand using the "Core AVC decoder"
>to mean - to play a video compressed with Apple's Quicktime 7 H.264
>(or AVC or MPEG-4 Part 10 blah blah).
>
>I still haven't seen the results of an independent H.264
>interoperability test. Despite the fact that there are now 40 or so
>software H.264 codecs out there and another 30 hardware
>implementations.
>
>
>- Harry Pasternak
>"The Knack" (Of Home Construction) TV Series
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