Re: SDK and API video conversions

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:58:42 -0700 Richard Crowley <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx> 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?


| The OP's term ".sdk and .api video" is meaningless which is why
| nobody is attempting to post a significant response.

It does seem he has read some sales blurb that stated something perhaps
like (oooh, there's that evil word again):

"Includes full SDK and advanced API"

Which to you and me would me there is a large software development kit
with an API that probably handles things like XML metadata and interfaces
with many other tools (which I can only guess at not seeing the actual
blurb or SDK/API itself) ... but to the OP it was confused as being yet
another format/codec.

IF we can just prod the OP into saying where he got these acronyms we can
be sure and and better guide him on understanding what is happening. But
it is almost certain these are as you and I have described.

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