[openbeos] Re: Media kittens
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:36:14 -0500
>"Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:>
>>My opinion, for what it is worth, is that undocumented APIs
>>are questionable, at best. I guess if we had some compelling
>>reason to exactly recreate them (say, Productive wouldn't work
>>or something), then maybe. Otherwise, forget it.
>
>We really have no compelling reason to invest time to recreate
>the undocumented API. Of couse, there is some functionality, like
>Indeo 5 reading, that we might lose when doing our own API,
>but there are no other problems.
I agree. And we didn't really want to ship those sorts of things,
anyway. I am not sure what Be's licensing was for those.
>Many file formats are well documented (like avi, mpeg, mov)
>and can easily repalce by a native reader)
Sure.
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