Google Chrome OS to Have Media Player to Play Local Contents
On Wednesday, when Apple is expected to announce its newest creation, which could be a multi-media rich tablet. The new form factor could open up a new class of portable device (larger than a cellphone) that can rival the old way of media consumption.
Google is well aware of it and is readying for its Chrome OS, which hopefully will be used by other device manufacturers such Acer, ASUS, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo to match Apple offering and at the same time, to disrupt Microsoft OS dominant in lightweight portable PCs..
In an interview with Ars Technica, Matthew Papakipos, lead engineer for Google’s Chrome Operating System shared the upcoming OS will have a complete media player that approximates the functionality of Windows Media Player.
“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 Web page 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." mentioned Papakipos.
As you know, Chrome OS is supposed to be a lightweight OS and it only offers Internet Browser – like functions, To add the media features such playing your CD, DVD or MP3 stored on an USB stick are not things that a browser support. We expect Google will add similar functions for documents as well. HTML5 is promising file access from a browser, Google is hoping the HTML 5 adoption will be ubiquitous by year-end but conservatively, they might choose to implement local file access feature in their OS instead.
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