Adobe drops QuickTime support, as visual artists look for a solution

The story: Apple leaves QuickTime securities unpatched on Windows; Adobe drops support in their product line. But that leaves creative people stuck – including live visual artists. And now they’re looking for solutions.

Push Pixels Harder: Open Hap Video Codec Now on Windows and Mac

So, you’ve got a laptop and you want to play multiple video streams. And maybe it’s not a super-fast laptop – maybe it’s just a kind-of normal laptop that you’ve upgraded to an SSD. Or, wait — you’ve actually just gotten the dream job media art gig you always wanted. And they’ve assembled 52 projectors […]

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2014

Hap to Make VJs Happy: Codec Looks Better, Plays Faster on GPU, Free [Mac]

Hap as in happy sounds about right. Hap is a family of free and open source video codecs for Mac OS X. The notion is that the computer’s GPU – rather than CPU – does the heavy lifting of decoding frames. Because GPUs are optimized for lots of parallel operations in a way CPUs are […]

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2013

As Adobe Abandons Mobile Flash; Look for a Renewed HTML5 Video Debate, Leapfrog Tech

Peter Kirn - November 9, 2011

ProRes Support, Now in Open Source ffmpeg Video Library and Converter

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2011

Compressor, Another Apple App Worth Buying at $50, Even Without Final Cut

Peter Kirn - July 12, 2011

The Entire Web Video Debate Summed up in Two Haikus, One Big Impasse

Peter Kirn - January 20, 2011

Apple-Centric Observers Get the Facts Wrong: H.264 Still Ain't Free

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2010

Apple-Centric Observers Get the Facts Wrong: H.264 Still Ain’t Free

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2010

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