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> If we want to get a bit retro here, convincing video playback on a consumer PC more or less started when hardware cards such as the Video Blaster arrived on t
by klodolph 4y ago
> If we want to get a bit retro here, convincing video playback on a consumer PC more or less started when hardware cards such as the Video Blaster arrived on the market.
A bit odd to give QuickTime a snub here, which was released in 1991.
- rasz 4y agoAuthor confused hardware and assumed barebones single frame framegrabber was a video accelerator. QuickTime Road Pizza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Video https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Video was one of the first viable universal video codecs on the desktop. Its not a coincidence Premiere started out on Mac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Premiere#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Premiere#History