On 21 May 2008, at 22:17, Max Battcher wrote: > William T Goodall wrote: >> It uses Microsoft's proprietary XAML, it plays WMV files but not H. >> 264 >> and so on. Business as usual with regard to standards it seems.
> VC-1 is just as open as H.264 is and the merits of one versus the > other > can be debated endlessly. I don't think that either "standard" is the > best, and I guess in a perfect world both Silverlight and Flash would > support both. (I believe that Moonlight has some H.264 support, at > least.) H.264 is the one that's actually used outside the Redmond Reality Distortion Field. Microsoft even admitted it when they added H.264 playback to the Xbox and Zune. But here they are flogging a dead horse and trying to promote their losing standard by the back door. Mixed metaphors Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ "I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If so, then Microsoft would have great products." - Steve Jobs _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
