Re:Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)
by mrpippy on Sunday February 05, 2017 @01:13AM
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> I don't really understand why the approach Perian undertook was abandoned when Perian itself was.
Perian's approach was to implement additional codec/container support as a QuickTime component. QuickTime has been deprecated for several years, and AVFoundation doesn't provide any component or plugin interface for 3rd parties to add codecs.
Perian's approach was to implement additional codec/container support as a QuickTime component. QuickTime has been deprecated for several years, and AVFoundation doesn't provide any component or plugin interface for 3rd parties to add codecs.