Yes, exactly. Anyone who doesn't have a DVD-ROM drive and bundled DVD-Video 
software, or gone to the trouble of installing MPEG-2 playback by some other 
means, would end up having to install something. QuickTime is probably the 
easiest thing to require, because of the millions of users who have iTunes 
installed, all of them have QuickTime already.

Other tools are able to play video files without an extra install, Director and 
Flash for example can both natively play H.264, without requiring QuickTime or 
any other system software to be installed. Maybe LiveCode will one day too. For 
now, as I mentioned, you can play a Flash swf in a revBrowser, and that can 
play HD H.264 files for you. But I suspect that doing random access of the 
video won't be as easy as it is in Director or Flash.


On Jan 18, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Robert Sneidar <slylab...@me.com> wrote:

> >Right. But wasn't the question about being able to play audio and video 
> >cross platform without having to make the user install anything?

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