Chrome OS: Did You Think it Wouldn’t Have a Media player?
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in Features, News
Not too long ago, I wrote up a quick review of the Cloud Player. Basically, its a piece of software that loads up and acts surprisingly similar to Apple’s iTunes yet is run completely through the browser. These type of webapps, along with the revisions that Google has in store for Youtube in the coming months and the continuing development of HTML 5 architecture, there is no way that Chrome OS is not going to be able to run media content. And that includes files. So, what is the major concern that now makes this a hot issue? Some may want to manipulate that content in some way, and there are some worries that with a standard version of Chrome OS that may not be possible.
But fear not. For example, although it’s in early stages, a company called Aviary already offers a set of plugins for Chrome browser that allows the editing of image and audio files. And although this genre is new and will have its technical drawbacks when comparing to traditional executable suites that give the user almost every editing and manipulation option at their fingertips, at some point we’re just not going to think about this anymore. It’s just going to work.
In fact, for those out there who have used potential Chrome OS competitors such as Jolicloud or Ubuntu Netbook Remix, media playback and manipulation are already features that these mobile-networked platforms have. And what’s to stop some from making their own Chrome OS flavor that is not of Google’s standard for the machines that they sell? We’ve already seen a few builds that fit on a 1GB stick, as well as a 64-bit version in a span of two months since the official announcement.
