MPEG-4 in NSMovieView - RED FLAG!
MPEG-4 in NSMovieView - RED FLAG!
- Subject: MPEG-4 in NSMovieView - RED FLAG!
- From: "Steven W. Schuldt" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:32:51 -0700
All,
Oh dear. Has anyone gotten MPEG-4 to display in an NSMovieView
(obviously on Mac OS X upgraded to QT 6)? At this point I can't find
any MPEG-4 samples other than those at Apple. Unfortunately those
example "streams" only display a gif in my NSMovieView that launches QT
Player when clicked. Here, try it yourself:
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/may/preview/refs/imac.mov
Cute, and good for Apple I suppose, but as an ISV I'm concerned.
Combing through the guts of the binary data sent back at the "gif URL" I
can't find any identifying URL where the actual MPEG-4 stream is coming
from. One suspects that isn't accidental. QT player won't tell you
where it's getting the data from either. It's a military secret pal,
deal with it!
At the moment I'm a bit concerned that this is a preview of the
brave new world of DRM that Hillary Rosen is so suddenly enamored with
Apple for: "publicly available" QuickTime content that plays only in an
Apple sanctioned QuickTime player. Even if this is simply an option
that an Apple author set in LiveStage Pro - what happens to the Watson's
of the world when public media like trailers are exclusively released in
MPEG-4 with that same pernicious option? Pretty fuggly experience for
the user; although one imagines it would still magically work in
Sherlock. ;)
And yeah, yeah I know - just who do I think I am that I think I
should decide how I want to display _Important_ trailers from _Important
Companies_ like _Disney_. Somebody tell me I'm wrong and set me
straight about this, please!
- Steven,
Right Now Feeling Like' Another Day, Another Arrow in the Back from the
Culture Industry and Corporate State'
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