Using QuickTime: "Decode this video for me." Using hardware directly: "Do this math for me." Even if it were technically possible for Flash (as a plugin) to ca

Using QuickTime: "Decode this video for me." Using hardware directly: "Do this math for me." Even if it were technically possible for Flash (as a plugin) to call out to QuickTime this way (and it may well not be), it is undesirable from Adobe's perspective to depend on code they don't control for something so central.