Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:00:24 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca, "Hentschel, Thomas" <Thomas.Hentschel@NOVELLUS.com>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Radio Station ... Message-ID: <199909170400.AAA94876@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:32:54 MDT." <199909170332.VAA11429@mt.sri.com> References: <199909170327.VAA11387@mt.sri.com> <199909170330.UAA07203@rah.star-gate.com> <199909170332.VAA11429@mt.sri.com>
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> > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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