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RE: QTJava will be depreciated next year.

I assume George was suggesting one still sits on top of the native QuickTime API, so you'd get access to all the QuickTime codecs without having to license them yourself.

I'm more interested in what happens to QuickTime itself as an API, and whether it continues to be provided on Windows. It's not too difficult to access the 32-bit QuickTime API directly via JNI, with or without QTJava. For example, I've just written some code to open a movie using NewMovieFromProperties so I can set the preserve pitch property. It's only a few lines of C and a bit of reflection to access a protected Movie constructor, but I end up with a regular Movie object I can use with the rest of the QTJava API. It's obvious the QuickTime team don't want the hassle of having to support Java when their focus is on other things but I don't see why things like that shouldn't continue to work.

-Rolf

At 04:58 -0700 10/6/08, Alex Shaykevich wrote:
Yes, but that would put the responsibility for licensing the codecs on the application developer. Financially difficult if not impossible for most small developers.

It would be nice if Apple released the QTJava source-code as opensource. People could update it then I guess (it would become a per-app private library of course, not a system-wide installation since there would be many flavours/versions of it around after that, but thatÂ’s not hard to do) 

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Rolf Howarth
Square Box Systems Ltd
Warwick, UK.
http://www.squarebox.co.uk
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