[Bf-committers] Microsoft dev support

[Campbell Barton]

Why did ooxml has come up? its not something blender would ever support.

How about the AVI format. blender cant save certain sizes (which ffmpeg can)
https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5777&group_id=9&atid=125

The other day writing a  7.5gig HD-MJpeg resulted in an avi with a
corrupt index (mencoder regenerated a correct avi index for seeking) -
ok I should submit a bug report.

Aside from that BMP? - as far as I know blenders support is ok.
WMF? (windows metafile) - who cares, better use svg.

I'm more interested in making sure blender dosn't do so much weired
stuff on windows.
https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=10629&group_id=9&atid=125
https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=8909&group_id=9&atid=125
https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5989&group_id=9&atid=125

- Cam

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Domino Marama <mark at identityserver.net> wrote:
>
>> ----------------- quote -----------------
>>
>> The ISO standard Office Open XML is an
>> example of the direction we are moving towards.
>
> Perhaps not a good example to use for those who have been following the
> Office Open XML path through ISO.
>
> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/05/release-ooxml-final-dis-text-now.html
>
> How can a standard be approved before any of the people voting for it
> saw the final form? Answer: by politics not technical reasons forcing
> the issue.
>
>> A good user experience of Blender on Windows is good for your
>> project/community and good for Microsoft.  What we are trying to
>> understand is what file formats, which are not open or not fully open,
>> are impeding the optimal experience with your community. If this is an
>> important issue to your users then it also accrues to the experience in
>> Windows. I would like to know what feedback you might have received
>> regarding the files your users most often import and those they might
>> be having a sub-optimal experience with.  Please also include in that
>> list any Microsoft files that you might have trouble with.
>
> Personally I don't see why specific attention should be given to
> proprietary Microsoft file formats. If they continue to avoid truly open
> standards and their own file formats provide a sub-optimal experience
> for Windows users, then it is not the open source community that has a
> problem imho.
>
> I don't see Microsoft making it easy for Mac, Sun, Linux etc users to
> use their "file formats, which are not open or not fully open". Any
> multi platform application which has support for Windows specific file
> formats is going to end up with a fragmented community as data then
> becomes platform specific even if the application isn't.
>
> Do we want to help Microsoft lock more users data to their platform, or
> do we want to encourage Microsoft to truly move towards open standards?
>
> I guess that short answer is that any file format that doesn't have a
> cross platform GPL or LGPL licensed implementation can't be considered
> optimal for Blender users ;)
>
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