On February 25, 2015 at 6:49:56 AM, Henri Beauchamp (sl...@free.fr) wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:03:29 -0800, Darien Caldwell wrote:
> I'm pretty sure the reasoning behind LL moving all the multimedia to a
> plugin system was so that 3rd parties could write their own plugins.
I doubt it...
Yeah, that was kind of the whole point of the change.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Media_Rendering_Plugin_System
Though it doesn’t appear that work in this was ever completed. (You still have
the build the entire viewer to build and test a media rendering plugin. You
need to stay relatively in sync upstream so releasing these plugins can’t
really be independent from viewer-release and can’t realistically be released
and work across the board with tpv’s based on Snowstorm.)
Outside of that, there are many other factors as to why nobody has developed a
media plugin. For one, licensing costs money, and us lowly, non-commercial
developers cannot afford or do not wish to shell out money to pay for codec
licenses like mp3.
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