From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 16 21: 6:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C855153B9 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:06:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07438; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199909170404.VAA07438@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), The Hermit Hacker , lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca, "Hentschel, Thomas" , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Radio Station ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:00:24 EDT." <199909170400.AAA94876@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:04:11 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > > The vast majority of end-users that do streaming media application use > > > > > either Real or Windows Media player. > > > > > > > > Real-Audio's quality is *really* bad, and the Windows Media Player > > > > appears to be on it's way our (recent press articles imply this...) > > > > > > What makes you think that windows media player is on its way out? > > > Just curious.... > > > > Microsoft ended up licensing Real Audio's media player for inclusion in > > Windows2000. I've read about this and other similar topics in some > > trade rags over the summer... > > The player, or the CODECs? There's a lot more than obviously meets > the eye going on in this market space, and Microsoft certainly hasn't > ceeded away what they've done with NetShow and Media Player. Quite the > contrary - if Media Player can play/decode content created with Real's > software, well, you don't need Real player on your Windows machine, do you? > > louie > > And Microsoft has a lock on their MMS protocol so that means that only windows nt boxes are capable for serving ASF files and be able to access the underlying codec capabilities . For instance a Windows Media Player can chose to receive only the french audio stream in a system mpeg stream . -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message