At the time, hardware sales were the real margins at Apple, and that was where they were losing out. However, the company, I think, lacked the foresight to see once you try to control too much, you are bound to get undercut by someone who is willing commoditize (sp?) the market even if it at the sacrifice of quality. I think there was a way for Apple to have it's cake and eat it too. If they licensed the architecture for the hardware, and then tied the OS to that architecture and license it as well, they could have had OEM's front to back. If the market slid to being a commodity, then they would have even made money even as prices fell. About the only consoling thing that Apple has is that they didn't blow it as bad as Xerox.
You can use Xine for Freevo. By editing your local_config.py, and pointing the app to use Xine, you eliminate many problems with Divx playback. The two in particular are delayed sound, and misplacement of images on the screen (i.e. video moved up to the top or bottom of the screen leaving huge black bars at the top or bottom).
Xine already does these things for Linux. Uninstall your old version of xine, then go to http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ and get the latest build. Plays QT6 files, divx, WMP, DVDs, etc. Also works much better for Freevo if you're into that. RPMs only here (wish the source would be out to manually compile, but oh well). Works on RH9, Mandrake 9.1, and SuSe.
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At the time, hardware sales were the real margins at Apple, and that was where they were losing out. However, the company, I think, lacked the foresight to see once you try to control too much, you are bound to get undercut by someone who is willing commoditize (sp?) the market even if it at the sacrifice of quality. I think there was a way for Apple to have it's cake and eat it too. If they licensed the architecture for the hardware, and then tied the OS to that architecture and license it as well, they could have had OEM's front to back. If the market slid to being a commodity, then they would have even made money even as prices fell. About the only consoling thing that Apple has is that they didn't blow it as bad as Xerox.
You can use Xine for Freevo. By editing your local_config.py, and pointing the app to use Xine, you eliminate many problems with Divx playback. The two in particular are delayed sound, and misplacement of images on the screen (i.e. video moved up to the top or bottom of the screen leaving huge black bars at the top or bottom).
Xine already does these things for Linux. Uninstall your old version of xine, then go to http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ and get the latest build. Plays QT6 files, divx, WMP, DVDs, etc. Also works much better for Freevo if you're into that. RPMs only here (wish the source would be out to manually compile, but oh well). Works on RH9, Mandrake 9.1, and SuSe.