Google Chrome OS to Have Integrated Media Player

In an interview with Ars Technica, Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for the Chrome OS project, comments on the integrated media player for the operating system.

"One thing that we mentioned during the launch that nobody's picked upon, but you guys might be into, is the integrated media player.


Another big aspect to what we're doing is we're integrating a whole media player into Chrome and into Chrome OS. People often get confused about this, and it's a fairly subtle but important point. Because in a sense what we're doing is integrating the equivalent of Windows Media Player into Chrome itself.

To have a computer, that's the other thing you need: you need a way to play JPEGs and MP3s and PDFs and all that stuff when you're offline. For example, you might just have a USB key that has a bunch of MP3s on it, so you want to be able to plug that in and listen to those MP3s. There might not be any controlling webpage for that activity, but it's clearly something you need to be able to do in any reasonable operating system or browser. So we're doing a lot of work to make Chrome and Chrome OS handle those use cases really well."

If you are interested in learning more about Chrome OS, Ars has a five page long interview with Matthew Papakipos and Eitan Bencuya, from Google PR. Hit the link below to check it out.

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