- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:14:26 -0700
I think this is a good idea, but one rapidly runs into the problems talked about in the 'bucket' RFC, notably that there is not a universal language for naming codecs (4ccs etc). But it's proved useful in the past. In general, the source fallbacks are also a way to 'probe' this, albeit in a very different way. I'm not sure you can always get a definitive answer to the question "if I gave you a file with this (extended) MIME type, could you play it?" and I am fairly sure that asking the implementation to enumerate all the types it could support would be hard. But this kind of query is really useful on a 'portal' page -- entry points to sites. A script can detect that you need to download oh, say, Theora, in order to see the videos in the rest of the site, and shows a frame or page that would help you load it. :-) -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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