[Adium-devl] It's that time again, folks!

[David Smith]

	We've been over this all before, quite a few times. Let's just leave  
it at "it's complicated" for now. :)

							David

On Feb 16, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Thomas Karpiniec wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2/17/07, Alan Humpherys <alangh at mac.com> wrote:
>> With QuickTime already available to do so much on streaming, display,
>> and data capture, It would be SOO much easier to get a class together
>> to use QT as the mechanism, but obviously, using gstreamer is
>> portable to other (non-Mac) clients...
>
> Perhaps I'm out of my depth, but could it be possible that libgaim
> could have an interface which simply gets the V/V data, and it's left
> up to the client to decide how to handle it, whether it's with
> gstreamer or quicktime or some other mechanism? Each OS has its own
> ideal way of doing things, so that would seem a sensible design to me.
>
>> So, we would need to decide, UI wise how to approach this...  open
>> source vs. quicktime
>
> Though open source vs quicktime is an issue, the fact that Adium only
> runs on OS X as it is, combined with quicktime being provided as part
> of the operating system, makes it seem logical to me that quicktime
> could be used.
>
> Just my two cents,
>
> Thomas
>
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