Comments on: iPhone SDK: No iPod Access for You!

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:11:33 +0000

720p/1080p seems to be x264…

By: burnsaa

burnsaa — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:08:27 +0000

Ya I was speaking of downloads that’s where I get most of my TV shows from for the time being anyways. But .avi files work well for me I can stream them nicely from my windows home server to my xbox 360 I haven’t noticed if x264 plays nice with the 360. Anyways that was off topic

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:11:59 +0000

AVI is just a container. The world seems, slowly, to be moving towards H.264 MP4 as the "standard" for video, and most modern devices now support that standard (with mixed, at best, support for older formats like DivX, XviD, WMV, etc.)

Just like audio has MP3, hopefully MP4 will sort out video*.

(Unless we're talking cough downloads cough where there's a lot of Xvid and some x264 coming up)

By: cmaier

cmaier — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:48:31 +0000

I assume the sandbox is on the same 700 MB partition as the rest of the apps. There is a further question also of how apps will get their content on the iPhone. Will the iPhone have conduits, or will everything have to be downloaded over WIFI?

I am not sure where the sandbox is. In the sdk, it puts stuff in a specific directory in the mac's file path, so clearly it will be different on the device. I'm sure I can dig up the answer in the docs someplace.

No conduit API, as far as I can tell. iphone->desktop seems easy; just read the backup directory (every synch backs up all data to the desktop). No easy way to go the other way (restores don't count). This is on my pet peeve list; palm had this a decade ago. Would be nice if the stupid thing supported bluetooth data transfers.

By: surur

surur — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:44:16 +0000

Where'd you get that number? I haven't noticed anywhere that it specifies a quota or a reserved amount for the sandbox.

I assume the sandbox is on the same 700 MB partition as the rest of the apps.

There is a further question also of how apps will get their content on the iPhone. Will the iPhone have conduits, or will everything have to be downloaded over WIFI?

By: cmaier

cmaier — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:15:34 +0000

Where’d you get that number? I haven’t noticed anywhere that it specifies a quota or a reserved amount for the sandbox.

By: surur

surur — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:14:26 +0000

So coreplayer would only have access to a few hundred megabytes of storage? Sweet!It would by like 2003 all over again!

Surur

By: cmaier

cmaier — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:09:51 +0000

Yes, there appears to me no problem with something like core player (in fact, the sdk shows you how to launch media players), but it can only play videos stored in the sandboxed documents directory or streamed over the network, not videos that are synched over using itunes.

By: burnsaa

burnsaa — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:06:53 +0000

I thought I had read that core player was working on an Iphone app? I sure hope so or rather I hope we will have some way of putting .avi files on our iphones and playing them because I hate having to convert every video file to apples format to watch it on my phone. Although it still beats watching it on my tiny treo screen

By: cmaier

cmaier — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:01:04 +0000

No access that I know of, though I'm running only on the simulator which is pre-populated with a few applications, but not the ipod. You definitely can access the photos.

It looks to me like some method of accessing some of this stuff will be coming - the notifications mechanisms and the url access mechanisms seem only partially implemented in the version of the sdk that is public.

Knowing apple, however, i expect any access to the music/movies database to be very restricted, at best.