Off topic? Maybe, but....
Are we CONSing yet?
[...]
Incidentally, this is one (the only?) benefit of the BBC using Real
Player - trying to drag this thread back on-topic. Real includes some
nifty bandwidth-sensing, and the same stream can serve anything from
8k to 800k. The BBC's are configured this way; also our only native
Real streams auto-sense from 8k-32 to allow you to listen on a device
over GPRS.
My experience is that Real stutters (for "re-buffering") more on
average than MP3 streams (with iTunes), and MP3 streams start much
faster. I have no data, only subjective experience.
Does Real Player try to hard to get the best quality?
And are the BBC happy to use proprietary formats?
:-)
Microsoft Windows Media does do some auto-sensing too, though these
streams aren't very backward-compatible; our high-bitrate stream is
auto-sensing from 20k up to 100k, from memory.
I don't get much text in the iTunes window with from Virgin
I don't think iTunes supports the in-player "now playing" text;
Indeed. Hence DAB is kool.
oddly,
Winamp does, so you do get some text there. Real can support this,
kind of, using some odd format or an inbuilt browser window; Windows
Media Player can send scripting events which is what we use for our
radio player (in MSIE).
compared with text on my handy DAB radio.
Glad you like it; that's my department too.
Yes, DAB is very nice. Taken a while to get there, though.
:-)
Gordo
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