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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




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