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Richard Davey <rich at corephp.co.uk> wrote :

> It's not about good vs. evil, it's just about corporate 
> bullshit as two juggernauts slog it out. When the dust 
> settles, when the tools mature, when the format truly opens 
> up, and the adoption rate is there, then it'll be worth 
> looking at again.


Of course, your by-then 12 year old nephew will be doing the sort of
work you wished still existed for us old fogeys LOL - because we'll be
out of jobs, having ignored *anything* that wasn't completely 100%
matured, adopted, agreed, formalised and layed down in stone with 1000
page manuals from O'Reilly.

I've heard a bunch of bitching about cross platform support - so what
that there's no Linux / Solaris / Beos version yet ? FFS Flash player 9
was only released for Linux in January. Just how long did Adobe and
before them Macromedia have to get that working and chose that it wasn't
an interresting platform to them ?

I'm principally interested in what WPF has to offer because most of it
can be set up programatically, if I can't afford the fees for the tools
(Expression media etc) to make these presentations myself.

Expression media encoder has a bunch of templates ready to go, to create
media players complete with thumbnails inserted in the timleline startup
a-la YouTube, and they should be mostly as portable as flash video

Now, to make those videos, I don't have to shell out for the MX bundle
or use some lashup of codecs, FFMPEg and pieces of string to do it on
the cheap. 

I can use the expression media encoder, or the old windows media
encoder, or even moviemaker for that. Doesn't that seem more enabling to
the man-on t'street ? Available, low cost tools for creativity ?


It's almost like the potential Quicktime has/had for interactivity, only
which was squandered by Apple in their pursuit of the hold iPod (a
common theme on the Quicktime mailing lists ;-)


Cheers - Neil Smith
MVP Digital Media