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"2. iTunes, at least in the beginning, was just a wrapper around the QuickTime framework."

There's more to it than that, but this touches on something; I really wish that something akin to QuickTime was available cross-platform. Yeah, it's crufty and strange warts that reveal Ugly Things are all over the place, but man, having a good AV API would make a lot of things better.

ffmpeg is a very impressive achievement, but it's not the same thing.




How does gstreamer compare?

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/




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