On 10/1/06, peter green <plugwash(a)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.