We shipped Sophie release candidate 2 on the weekend, of interest is


a) Our QuickTimeReaderWriter which using FFI and quicktime graphics  
importers to render all sorts of graphics formats to a squeak form,
or a squeak form to a PNG representation. People might find that code  
useful. 1000x times faster when someone wants to read and render a  
7.8MB PNG.
Technically you can output to all sorts of graphics formats, but I  
didn't write code for doing that, someone else can.

b) Use of the Quicktime Movie Controller interface, we found Apple  
seems to have two execution paths for playing back media, Controller  
related
and non-controller related. Except for the fact the non-controller  
related logic locks up your machine when playing back mpeg movies  
over the
internet, why you shouldn't find a difference... Hah.

c) A *very* lightweight interface to let people read/edit/save books  
onto a Server, which seems to be located in the deepest/darkest part  
of eastern Germany
and runs at 1200 baud. But nothing some fresh funding wouldn't fix...

PS linux support should be better, mind if you don't use mpeg 1 then  
bring your own codec.
I've seen quicktime *like* clones about, someone should integrate.


http://www.sophieproject.org/


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