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Subject: RE: FLASH: Re: Flash 5 & QT
From: Branden Hall
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:16:33 +0100

It would.
Making the two plugins talk to each other would significantly increase the
size of the plugin. However, since the plugins architechture is now open,
people have expanded it to include video, namely the new Excite web-top box.

-= Branden J. Hall
-= Multimedia Developer / Instructor
-= Fig Leaf Software - "We've got you covered!"


-----Original Message-----
From: owneratchinwag [dot] com [owneratchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:owneratchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of
Michael@BTW
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:40 PM
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: Re: Flash 5 & QT


Yeah obviously jamming the QT plug-in into the flash plug-in would not be a
good idea.

However, a much more elegant solution would be to allow video files to play
through swfs (in a similar way to shockwave: the video file still depends on
the user having the appropriate plug-in).

This will never happen to avoid diluting demand for Director, but I
seriously doubt the amount of code required would make the flash player much
larger.

Michael Penney
See Combat Footage from the West/An Tir War!
http://www.bigtimeweb.com/events/kinetic.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregg Caines" <gcainesatneometrixsystems [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: Re: Flash 5 & QT


> There's quite a bit more to the QT plugin than the Flash one.
> If the Flash plugin were to play QT movies, it would have to
> be 7mb fatter (the quicktime plugin is 6.5mb with an additional
> 500kb installer).
>
> A 7mb download for the Flash plugin would no doubt cause it's
> browser penetration percentage to drop off the charts...
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Gregg Caines
> n e o m e t r i x systems inc.
> http://www.neometrixsystems.com
> gcainesatneometrixsystems [dot] com
>



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