Posted by J.O. Aho on 04/09/07 16:55

Travis Newbury wrote:
> On Apr 9, 11:45 am, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
>
>> Many developers choose to use development environments that is locked to one
>> and only one operating system, if instead picking an environment that has been
>> developed for a multiple operating systems in mind, they will be able with
>> minor or some cases none code change get the program to work under multiple
>> operating systems, including all the binaries on a CD will not be a problem.
>
> The OS you encode your video with is completely irrelevant to what OS
> the user uses to watch it.

That depends on the choice of encoding, some encodings are limited to one
platform, which makes the choice of the OS where the encoding is done in a way
affect which OS the user will have to see it.

What I was saying was that developers choose to write application in a such
manner that it's all to much work to port the application to other platforms
than the original, while if they made sensible choices before they start to
write the application, they then can port the application with little work to
quite many other operating systems.


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//Aho

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