thoughts of an ape from the eighties
Recent excursions into video conversion led me again to problems in the OSS codec world. In fine “lee-nooks” tradition, few things are arriving pre-packaged to suit everyone’s needs. In the special case that you happen to be converting MP4 video containing relatively new MPEG4 audio codecs, you may run into hazards described herein.
I’ve recently been working on a project which concerns integrating of Flash 8 / Flash 9 VMs. However, progress has been stumped by unfortunate revelations of a bug in the FocusManager, when interacting with components across different VMs.
Working with ExternalInterface will make your elbows melt. It’s a sad fact that while this code is lovely in principle, it doesn’t actually bloody work half the time. Overall, it causes problems; the same ones that arise from X-browser incompatibilities. Why? Because it uses the browser’s technology.
I really hope this brief disclosure will save a few headaches.