- From: King InuYasha <ngompa13@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:48:03 -0500
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Michael Dale <dale at ucsc.edu> wrote: > I have requested that a few times as well... Some went so far to even make > a mock up page: http://people.xiph.org/~j/apple/preview/ > > It would or course be much more ideal if we could get the component into > quicktime codec lookup system. Is there any criteria or process that has > been made publicly available? Are there any guidelines or special request > mechanisms that we have missed? Eric or anyone at apple reading this list: > if you have _any_ information as to how a codec component gets into the > quicktime codec lookup system; it would be great if you could inform us. > > --Michael Dale > > > > Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I'm sorry, but there is quite a bit of frustration from the past >> hidden in my paragraph. For the last 4 years we have been trying to >> get XiphQT added to the list of QuickTime components on Apple's >> external components webpage at >> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html . We have >> seen proprietary codecs added one after the other but Xiph codecs >> continuously being ignored even though we requested addition multiple >> times and through different people. I'm sorry to say but that has >> indeed caused a feeling of being rejected on purpose. We would love to >> see this situation rectified. >> >> Regards, >> Silvia. >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Eric Carlson<eric.carlson at apple.com> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Silvia - >>> >>> On Jun 13, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> As for Safari and any other software on the Mac that is using the >>>> QuickTime framework, there is XiphQT to provide support. It's a >>>> QuickTime component and therefore no different to installing a Flash >>>> plugin, thus you can also count Safari as a browser that has support >>>> for Ogg Theora/Vorbis, even if I'm sure people from Apple would not >>>> like to see it this way. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Speaking of misinformation and hyperbole, what makes you say "people >>> from >>> Apple" want to hide the fact that Safari supports third party QuickTime >>> codecs? We *could* have limited WebKit to only support QuickTime's >>> built-in >>> formats, but did not specifically so customers can add other formats as >>> they >>> choose. >>> >>> We have never tried to hide this, it is ridiculous to imply otherwise. >>> >>> eric >>> >>> >>> >> > I don't even think QuickTime has a codec lookup system. For codecs that are unavailable, it just points me to the page, even if the codec doesn't exist on that page. I remember that either QuickTime 4 or 5 had a codec lookup and download system... Not sure about QuickTime 6. Definitely not QuickTime 7. Maybe QuickTime X will have one again? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090615/a0621081/attachment-0001.htm>
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