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Could any one who knows more about this more than I do answer me this. Would this extension framework allow an app to stream a file and have it played in anothe

by x0054 12y ago

Could any one who knows more about this more than I do answer me this. Would this extension framework allow an app to stream a file and have it played in another app. For instance, on my Android TV stick I can open my network share in ES File Browser and click on a file and have it play via MX Player. The ES Browser streams the files via samba from the server and then passes it to MX Player to play. Would the Apple extension system allow for this type of model. I am just using video as an example. I guess in general I am wondering if the new Apple framework would allow the host app to continuously stream content to an extension. So, I guess another example would be like a website. If it's a dynamic website in spanish, for instance, and I would like to use Bing to convert it to english. Would it be possible to design an extension that would dynamically translate the site, or would it be more of a static deal, where once translated, you have to execute the extension again to translate additional dynamic content that may have appeared on the same page. Also, apple claimed that they are going to expose GPU to apps, so you can now write apps that can offload calculations to the GPU. Does that mean that we might finally see GPU decoding and encoding for none apple video formats, or is that still a no-no?

ertdfgcb 12y ago
It seems like that would be possible. The only restrictions that I can think of are the fact that each (iOS) extension needs its own app with significant functionality (so this extension would have to be provided by a file browser or something), and a extension will only run for as long as it takes to do whatever its supposed to do (so no background extensions). I think as long as you're watching the video the extension will be active, so that shouldn't be a problem. You might need to add support to the video player, but besides that I don't see why this wouldn't work As for the GPU thing, I have no idea, but it seems like they're trying to be more open; I'd be kind of surprised if they said no.
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rsynnott 12y ago
> Also, apple claimed that they are going to expose GPU to apps, so you can now write apps that can offload calculations to the GPU. Does that mean that we might finally see GPU decoding and encoding for none apple video formats, or is that still a no-no? Why wouldn't that be allowed, where it's feasible? Right now, there are lots of players which do software decoding of "non-Apple video formats" (I assume you're talking about h264? iOS doesn't support any of Apple's own video codecs, which are very old).

by x0054 12y ago

ertdfgcb 12y ago

It seems like that would be possible. The only restrictions that I can think of are the fact that each (iOS) extension needs its own app with significant functionality (so this extension would have to be provided by a file browser or something), and a extension will only run for as long as it takes to do whatever its supposed to do (so no background extensions). I think as long as you're watching the video the extension will be active, so that shouldn't be a problem. You might need to add support to the video player, but besides that I don't see why this wouldn't work As for the GPU thing, I have no idea, but it seems like they're trying to be more open; I'd be kind of surprised if they said no.

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rsynnott 12y ago

> Also, apple claimed that they are going to expose GPU to apps, so you can now write apps that can offload calculations to the GPU. Does that mean that we might finally see GPU decoding and encoding for none apple video formats, or is that still a no-no? Why wouldn't that be allowed, where it's feasible? Right now, there are lots of players which do software decoding of "non-Apple video formats" (I assume you're talking about h264? iOS doesn't support any of Apple's own video codecs, which are very old).