In practice it's not quite that simple, but we'll talk about the limitations in a bit after you've had a chance to play. No mucking around with AppleScript, just "clean" CoreFoundation code. QuickTime handles all the streaming and playback. qtl file, and then feed that to QuickTime Player.
So this add-on is, in essence, quite simple: select a media element (video, audio and images are supported), determine its source and write up a temporary. qtl), a little-used feature of QuickTime classic - but notably not QuickTime X - which lets you build lightweight Internet "media shortcuts" and feed them to QuickTime Player, which then goes and fetches the video online for you. It just needed to be updated to be a restartless Jetpack, which I've done too. Even better still, Mozilla had a supported example of feeding images to iPhoto which I could modify to feed videos to QuickTime.
Better still, it could be implemented as an add-on so that people who want to play with it can. While fiddling around with 6.0, I realized that Firefox's js-ctypes module could allow the browser to do this kind of manipulation in JavaScript. Oh, snap! Did I not tell you? Let's watch H.264 videos from TenFourFox! Not even Firefox can do this trick!īecause Flash or Safari are obviously the only ways to watch H.264 video online from a Power Mac, and we're trying to jettison Flash, an idea I'd had kicking around for awhile was to enable a QuickTime window so that you could watch the video, at least, even if it wasn't composited into the browser. Still, Walt Mossberg likes it, in the way he likes most things Apple puts out, as I found out from watching his H.264 video at the Wall Street Journal.
So maybe we were the smart ones for sticking with PowerPC after all. So Lion came out today and as expected it only serves to make Macs stupid.
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