[vorbis] iTunes for Windows - Ogg Vorbis support

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Oct 17 10:24:22 PDT 2003



Jack Moffitt wrote:
> THe project is doomed to failure.  They can't support the full spec with
> the current Quicktime API, and Apple has been notified of this many
> times.  Maybe it will be fixed in Panther, maybe not.  We'll see.

Actually, we can, with some tricks.  I don't have a MacOS machine at the
moment though (will have one again next week or so, new PowerBook :-) ).

It's not like it'll be completed soon, though.

> Also, that project works from QuickTime.  Many of the codec functions in
> iTunes are not supported by QuickTime plugins.  Streaming, encoding are
> just two of hte most important ones.  So we still lose, even if the
> Quicktime plugin did work well.

http streaming works fine.

<p>Segher

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