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RE: OFFICIAL petition for a webcam video capture plugin
The point that marissa was making is that not everything has to be put in a plugin, (and certainly not all the things that aren't pure msn messenger related) while there are already existing programs out there which can do the same. (and much better, with more possebilities because they are designed for that purpose*.)
As for why people want a plugin that notifies you when a contact opens a convo; that's because that is a pure and specific MSN Messenger feature. Recording Webcams are not only a Messenger feature and the programs that exist out there do already exactly what you want...
Furthermore, this is a very difficult thing to make (as plugin or not, that's doesn't matter); and why inventing the difficult wheel again when there are already good alternatives out there...
Comparing this to chatlogging or open window notifiers isn't such a good comparisson because as I said these functions are pure MSN Messenger related functions. Recording a webcam is not.
Although, as for the fact that people want to log the things they do on the PC, yes that's true (but that wasn't marissa's point I believe).
If anyone wants to make this plugin, go ahead. But I doubt this will be made anytime soon...
* Imagine that someone makes this. I bet that there are suggestions in no-time like: "I want to save the file as .AVI, DivX, .MOV." etc... This is almost impossible todo as a plugin. Why? You need full blown encoders for each format to do that, making the plugin very huge (for a plugin) and almost unhandable. Logic choice and next step: make it into a standalone application. And there you have it. You've made a application which isn't specific for MSN Messenger anymore and you are just "wasting" your time creating such a thing because professional companies already made it and they did a far better job with a nice GUI, helpfiles, bugfree tools, etc...
All this is not to say it is impossible, but just to say that some things are better not included as a plugin/addon into an application to prevent bloated software and/or limitations and/or wasted time.
This post was edited on 10-25-2004 at 07:37 PM by CookieRevised.
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