02/03

Perian and Tubular - Almost There

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We’ve been hard at work on using Perian to play YouTube video in a QuickTime video player. We now have a much more reliable method of finding the videos and downloading them, which means that there’s no more ambiguity before trying to play a video as to whether or not it will actually play. Perian’s also given us the ability to scrub through every frame in the movie, and not just to certain frames, like YouTube’s player (although this is a limitation of Flash, and so the same behavior is seen at Google Video, Dailymotion, Revver, etc.). Performance is also much better. And down the line, we’ll start using Core Video to clean up the video files.

We’re in the process of wrapping up the integration. When we’re done, we’ll push out a new version (finally) to everyone in the beta.

Also, I’m sorry for the lack of updates lately, but college work never ends.