On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Henri Beauchamp <sl...@free.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:49:04 -0700, Darien Caldwell wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Henri Beauchamp <sl...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > > Yes, it prevents the viewer from reading media files, QuickTime's, > > > but not only: all video and audio media files are read via the > > > QuickTime plugin in the viewer: see the occurrences of > > > "media_plugin_quicktime" in skins/default/xui/en/mime_types.xml > > > (for LL's viewer; some TPV moved this file where it truly belongs, > > > in the app_settings/ sub-directory). > > > > > > > > This is only true for old codebases. The modern viewer using Chromium > > Embedded Framework no longer requires Quicktime. Quicktime was only used > to > > decode media streams. But the viewers now do this with the CEF codec. > > Nope !... Media URLs pointing to *.mp3/4g *.avi *.wav > *.you_name_it_media_type > *still* use the QuickTime (for Mac and Windows) or gstreamer (for Linux) > plugin... > > There is confusion in many people mind's about media streams embedded > inside a web page (which indeed are played via CEF now, provided the > web page is using HTML5 or a proper CEF plugin exists for the embedded > media stream) and raw media file URLs: the latter are *not* played via > CEF. Just look at the code in llviewermedia.cpp... > > Well for some magical reason I have two PCs with no Quicktime installed on them, that have no problem playing parcel media streams. One is Windows 7 and one is Windows 10. Streaming works fine on both...
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