Re: FLASH: Re: Flash 5 & QT

[Michael@BTW]

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

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Gregg Caines" <

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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

>

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