On 10/1/06, peter green plugwash@p10link.net wrote:
maybe make the player downsample to 8 bit 8khz audio and put up a warning banner saying "you are using a very old version of java, sound quality will be degraded", or find a ms specific way to play audio (if that is possible from an unsigned applet without breaking use on more modern jvms).
I'd rather not.
1) The time it would take to code the downsampling and switching could be better spent on other parts of the code. 2) As a contributor I would be upset that users are being given a poor quality version of my contribution rather than being asked to install improved software.
Or put another way, *I* won't be working on that. :) You can if you really think it would be useful.
I've also found that about 18% of the people who try the play in browser link don't have any form of Java installed. I think it's clear that it isn't a magic bullet in any case.
One of the nice things about the Michael Dale's SOC project is that it will magically use the best method available, only falling back to java if there is no VLC plugin available. This way we can ask users to perform the installation who can (which is the vast majority of the users) but still provide java for some of the ones who can't.