[opensource-dev] Quicktime

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

On 2016-04-20 14:53 , Henri Beauchamp wrote:
>> >This is only true for old codebases. The modern viewer using Chromium
>> >Embedded Framework no longer requires Quicktime. Quicktime was only used to
>> >decode media streams. But the viewers now do this with the CEF codec.
> Nope !... Media URLs pointing to *.mp3/4g *.avi *.wav *.you_name_it_media_type
> *still*  use the QuickTime (for Mac and Windows) or gstreamer (for Linux)
> plugin...
>
> There is confusion in many people mind's about media streams embedded
> inside a web page (which indeed are played via CEF now, provided the
> web page is using HTML5 or a proper CEF plugin exists for the embedded
> media stream) and raw media file URLs: the latter are*not*  played via
> CEF. Just look at the code in llviewermedia.cpp...
>
You're correct for all released viewers, Henri, but we are in the 
process of building and testing to see what works with no quicktime 
plugin at all.

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