[DIRECT-L] Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/31/04 5:15 AM, Sean Wilson at snw at paradise.net.nz wrote:

>> Hi Valentina Developers.
>> 
>> We start to port V4RB, V4MD and other Valentina products on
>> Valentina 2.0 kernel.
>> 
>> And we are interested to get list of your DREAM features for database in a
>> your favor IDE.
>> 
>> Please send such feature list directly to me or to Valentina list.
>> 
>> Please send ANY your dream, never mind how fantastic it sounds.
>> Okay? :-)
> 
> OK, you want fantastic, here's mine!
> 
> A lot of users ask on Director lists for a method to encrypt video files.
> There are 2 options suggested: use the Sorenson codec to create a QuickTime
> file with a media key (file can only be played by a user with the required
> key), or write the file to disk when it's needed and delete it when done.
> Both of these solutions have problems - the first involves the use of a
> specific codec (which may not be appropriate) and the second means the file
> is available to a savvy user *for a limited period of time*.
> 
> My dream would be to stream video from a BLOB field to the QuickTime player
> instance (sprite/member) on Director's stage. That simple! I have NO idea
> what this would involve, but QT has the inherent ability to play from an
> RTSP stream/server which from my limited understanding means it is capable
> of dealing with smaller segments of an overall file. I have even less idea
> if this is possible from Valentina or would rather require a "special"
> QuickTime xtra to be developed.
> 
> Not DB related so much as encryption related, but that's my dream.

Not simple feature I think.
So we will put it on TO DO list for future.

I afraid Director XDK itself do not give us way to work from plugin with QT
cast members. May be I am wrong.

-- 
Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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