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- My plans for Sparkle have changed quite a bit because of a new development.
- I am now working for Apple in the QuickTime team. One negative aspect of
- this is that I can now no longer be as free as I was with talk of what I'll
- be doing next. However there are positive aspects---what I am doing will get
- into QuickTime at some point and benefit everyone directly, and I can do
- rather more because I have access to QT souurces and undocumented functionality.
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- Apple have said they are happy for me to continue to work on Sparkle and
- release it for free. I plan to continue to do so. However the direction of
- Sparkle will probably change. I'm spending most of my time (on work and
- off) involved with my QT work and most of the ideas I had for future Sparkle
- MPEG support and performance improvements will ne put into the QT code.
- However there remain all sorts of areas of digital video that I'm interested
- in but that I'm not dealing with through Apple, and those will be added to
- Sparkle as I find time.
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- Many people mail me asking about future plans. In an attempt to save
- everyone's time, let me state what I know here.
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- Audio support will be added ASAP. That and issues related to it are the
- most important item now on my agenda.
- Applescript support will dribble in as I feel a need to take a break from
- the complexities of dealing with MPEG.
- I would like to start playing with rate-limited MPEG encoding, but that's
- complex stuff to get good results, so I can't suggest when I'll have
- something useful. However I have some ideas for starting right away.
- Support for other small issues (for example showing previews when opening
- files) will come in bits and pieces.
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- These are the large goals. Many small things will be added simply as part
- of the code cleanup. If you need something added that you imagine is
- pretty trivial, mail me. It may be I can add it in a few hours and help
- you, and it may be something I wouldn't otherwise think of.
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