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Re: (Help!) RE: QTJava will be depreciated next year.

Jeremy Wood just posted a link to his code describing how he's building quicktime movies from Java images, not QTJ involved.  He's using mjpeg compression, though so the file sizes will be rather large.  Still might suit your purposes very well.

--Alex

A O <email@hidden> wrote:
Shit!
 
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I may be able to move my application to?
 
My application uses QTJava to create an avi file from a large number of generated images...  I would love to find something else that I can move my application to that also doesn't cost anything (seeing how Im not making money with my application)...
 
Thanks for your advice


> From: email@hidden
> To: email@hidden
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:19:37 -0500
> Subject: Re: QTJava will be depreciated next year.
>
>
> On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Alex Shaykevich wrote:
>
> > One of the things that made QTJ so great was that the developer
> > wasn't responsible for distributing and codecs and, therefore, was
> > off the hook for any licensing issues. Even if someone were to hack
> > Java and something like ffmpeg into an actual editing engine, it
> > still leaves the developer in a quandry regarding legality and
> > licensing.
> >
> > --Alex
> >
>
> I was trying to address that when I mentioned licensing to an OS
> community. Not so much licensing the QT4J code, which is probably not
> particularly useful except as a planning document, as I was thinking
> about licensing access to develop against QTX to said community.
> Apple is still responsible for QT and getting QT to the masses (which
> has always chafed a significant subset of this community) while OS
> devs continue to code against it being there. Whether this gets
> around codec licensing issues is an exercise I leave to my legal
> brethren but it could be one way for Apple to politely / quietly drop
> QT4J off their plate. If nothing comes from the community at least
> Apple wasn't the one who axed the product in the end--i.e. they could
> plausibly say there wasn't enough interest in the product to justify
> its continued viability.
>
> The question isn't whether Apple will continue to develop a
> multifaceted media application for two of the three main desktop
> operating systems so much as whether they'll facilitate or even permit
> someone to code against that application. I don't see how it is any
> skin off their back--other than maybe some increase in what they pay
> for licensing--to communicate their dev path to an OS community and
> provide a modicum of access to their dev docs. In return they get
> some additional push for ubiquitous QT installation that they can
> leverage á la iTunes / ITMS / etc.
>
> Then again, I'm merely a code drone who doesn't even get to play with
> Apple stuff except in my free time. I'm certainly no PM, PO, or the
> like and if Apple decides to just /dev/null the whole thing then
> that's their prerogative. It's just as likely (at least) that I'm
> completely wrong in my assessment and QT4J will continue to drift into
> obsolescence with no fast and hard break like I think will happen with
> QTX. The ultimate point being we probably won't know until they
> release it because Apple is not particularly involved with this
> community.
>
> That's probably enough speculative ranting from me on a rumor thread.
>
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