Interoperability; was: [sldev] Call for requirements: ISO MPEG-V ...

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-06-02, at 13:34, Mike Monkowski wrote:
> If you want your avatar to look the same in WoW and SL, you can  
> modify them using each world's editor, but you don't have to use  
> the same mesh and morphs.

I don't believe that it's possible to create an avatar in WoW that  
will look like any of my avatars in SL, and frankly I have no  
interest in playing Warcraft or Everquest or any other MMORPG until  
that changes.

> To use an analogy, I can play Quicktime movies and Flash animations  
> in the same browser, and I wouldn't be surprised to find a  
> converter that can translate Flash into Quicktime, but I wouldn't  
> expect to be able to play the Quicktime movie in a Flash viewer.

Up until QT 7.3.1 you could play Flash animations inside quicktime,  
and Quicktime is just a packaging mechanism for various codecs, many  
of which can also be used by Quicktime. This is not a matter of  
translation, it's is a matter of both Flash Video and Quicktime  
supporting the same standards.