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Sean A D'Esposito writes about compatibility issues with the release of Shrek movie on DVD: "I just got my copy of Shrek on DVD and all of the DVD ROM features, including the Revoice Studio, are '...not available on Apple Macintosh.'"
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Apple is starting to dominate the DVD Authoring business, with them eating two great and large names for their software (Astarte were one and now Spruce). We should see more of these DVDs compatable with Mac's, and not so much PCs...
Too bad that Dreamworks is so idiotic.
I was going to buy a Shrek DVD, but now I'm not. Just lost a sale there, fellas.
It's always been like this and it will always be like this as long as Apple has a tiny market share.
How did he get a copy of Shrek so soon? It doesn't come out until Nov 2nd....
This will continue until Apple allows it to happen. The problem isn't developers aren't willing to do it, it's that they can't. Apple's DVD player is very closed - there are no APIs available to make it appear on a web page or in a flash movie - which is what most of these DVD ROM features are.
This irritates me, and I called the company that makes the Scary Movie DVD. I got to speak with the lead programmer for the mac version. He told me that his company PCFriendly has been practically begging Apple to put support in the OS 9 DVD player app so the DVD-ROM features could work, like watch the film in a window next to your web browser displaying the script and trivia questions along with the movie. The problem is the browser plugin needs to access the play/stop and time features of the DVD player, which Apple refused.
Pleease Apple, put external plugin calls in the DVD player app for OS X 10.2
Apple has historically refused to provide high-level API features to the Mac OS that would generally make developer's lives much easier.
Instead Apple provides low level or framework building block pieces of API that it then expects its developers to build their custom code solutions on top of.
In many cases this prevents feature parity between Mac and Windoze apps (like DVDs content being restricted to the DVD player only).
Apple has had rogue divisions that produced Game Sprockets (which pretty much died in Mac OS X), MLTE (similar to the high-powered built-in text editing in Mac OS X, only no one uses it and Apple doesn't explain *how* to integrate it into Carbon Events-based apps very well) and ColorSync.
Printing is just now getting better after QuickDraw GX was whacked in the mid 90s due mostly to the fighting between QuickDraw GX and the old-style Printer driver and QuickDraw architects (who would have been obsoleted by QDGX).
Even creating custom shaped windows on Mac OS is a major chore, clumsy and slow compared to Windoze. Carbon Events make it easier, but you still must write a bunch of code and manage the window yourself. Major pain!
Apple Engineers PLEASE add higher level features to Mac OS X! Whether Apple owns DVD Studio Pro or not is irrelevant if the Mac OS cannot do more than play a DVD video in Apple's own locked down app.
If you want to see things get better then you must let apple know how you feel. The only place to do this right now that I know of is - http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
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