BTW, I am looking at future Haiku (as noted in the Working Groups doc) and not R1 development... if that explains where I'm coming from. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Ar18@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > [...] > > This is, of couse, a very simplistic approach to the issue. There > > are > > actually many issues to consider in the process: > > Something like this would be out of the scope for R1, but luckily, it > already exists in BeOS and Haiku :-) > The Translation Kit handles various file types in an independent way > (unfortunately, it lacks heavily in the document area, image support is > very good, though), and the Media Kit makes sure that all apps (that > use it) support the same set of media encoders and decoders for audio > and video. > > Bye, > Axel. > >