Re: SDK and API video conversions

phil-news-nospam wrote... 
 Richard Crowley  wrote:
| phil-news-nospam  wrote ...
|> Some video software, especially software that comes with specific
|> hardware, often throws up "SDK" and "API" as available features.
|> Software programmers know the meanings you state.  But maybe a few
|> videographers who've never doing any computer programming would not
|> catch the implied meaning.  They are, afterall, just more acronyms
|> like AVI and MPG, etc.
|
| "like" seems inappropriate in this context. "AVI" and "MPG"
| refer to specific codecs and/or file formats widely used for video.
| OTOH "SDK" and "API" are systems programming terms that
| are only concidentally and peripherally associated with video.

What single word, or multiple words, would you substitute
in place of "like" in the sentence that has that word?


It wasn't just the word. It seemed that you were saying that
SDK and API were video acronyms like AVI and MPG.
Never mind, not important enough to continue discussing.

We agree that without further clarification, the question is not
answerable. 

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