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nanopico:
Through the various threads this is what I have pulled for feature/fix requests (plus some I have added from my own list).
The poll is to get an idea what the community would like and this will effect along with my comfort level of each one the
actual priority and list of things I will attempt
I do not promise to be able to complete any of these but I will give it a try.

MacTron:
Even Though the Mac Os 9 it's a great platform for video editing, without H264 codec, its mostly out of the game ...

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=2403.msg16109#msg16109

So, I have voted for the H264 codec.

nanopico:

--- Quote from: MacTron on December 03, 2015, 08:20:53 AM ---Even Though the Mac Os 9 it's a great platform for video editing, without H264 codec, its mostly out of the game ...

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=2403.msg16109#msg16109

So, I have voted for the H264 codec.


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It will probably happen at some level.  There is enough documentation on the codec and getting it compiled and added to quicktime should be straight forward.  Not sure on the effort, but based on what's currently available it should be not too terribly difficult (may not be quick but not hard).  Though initially I'm not sure how well it will perform, but just getting it working first would probably be a step in the right direction.

cc333:
Proper h264 support is meaningless if the video card can't function, so I have voted for improved support for more modern cards.

c

nanopico:

--- Quote from: cc333 on December 13, 2015, 11:29:37 AM ---Proper h264 support is meaningless if the video card can't function, so I have voted for improved support for more modern cards.

c

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From a codec standpoint the video card actually has almost nothing to do with it.
If you want hardware encoding/decoding then yes the graphics card or a dedicated encoder/decoder would be needed.  But in general the code to do that can run on the cpu.  h264 is a bit more cpu intensive, but it wouldn't depend on any specific graphics card.
To play a h264 video you grab a chunk of data, find the packet/frame start, see if the end is in your chunk of data, if not then load some more, decode the packet, send it to the video output.  The stream output is pretty much the same no mater what codec is used.  The graphics cards can just provide some hardware decoding or dedicated processing to handle it.

Though new graphics drivers are important for lots of things, just not required.

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