On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 09:15 AM, Luke Sheridan wrote:
OK, I see that I have to download the component separately. Apple,
are you serious? Two downloads and a restart?? Updating existing
software didn't pull down the 3gpp either.
Yeah, this'll take off.
It's an authoring component, isn't it - I believe 3gpp content will
playback fine for any QT 6.3 user, but if you want to author you
download a free component. Hardly a big issue for content authoring
folks, and regular users won't ever need the component. I could be
wrong... actually looks like I may be :)
I wouldn't mind the component download kicking in for playback...
haven't tested that yet. But now that we finally get a decent speech
codec again, it's not included by default (if it requires the
download) which is a big bummer.
Also, I don't get why the restart is necessary for this component -
seems like an overzealous QA process. AFAIK, at most you should need a
logout - I don't appreciate having to restart for something like this.
Please correct me on any misrepresentations - I'm going off first
impressions, I haven't done much testing with it yet and have already
installed the component on all of my boxes so I can't be certain
whether playback-only components are included in 6.3 or not.
Unbundled components like the MPEG-2 playback make sense when they are
there for legacy support and not for forward-moving technologies. But
unbundled components for contemporary technologies will really stifle
rollout on a larger scale.
Then again, without testing I'm blowing hot air. Can anyone answer:
1) Does QT 6.3 ship with 3gpp playback without downloading the
additional component?
2) If not, will the necessary codecs auto-download if necessary?
3) Is AMR generally accessible to any Quicktime app?
