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

If you look at recent postings at this list’s archive, you’ll find a solution for AVI generation, if that’s the only part you use QTJava for (e.g. take a bunch of JPGs and make an AVI)

 

 

 

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


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> 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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