................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html ................................. this was covered at /. a goo read: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html fred Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Lundgren Jarmo: > ................................. > To leave Commie, hyper to > http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html > ................................. > > > Then, on August 10th, came a note from Apple engineering staff to the > > QuickTime VR mailing list saying that "IE 5.5 SP2 [for > > Windows] will not > > use the QuickTime plug-in no matter what you do. Microsoft > > has disabled > > all 'Netscape style' plug-ins, there is nothing you can do. Look for > > information from us about how work around this problem in the near > > future." > > Soooo microsoftish... > > I've _already_ had a lot of problems getting Quicktime plugin work in > IE/Windows. It doesn't seem to be the fault of the plugin: Windows (or IE) > just seems to "forget" all the time, that it should show certain media > formats with Quicktime... Annoying... > > QT plugin is great for example playing mp3's straight in the browser window. > Handy. > > > does media player play quicktime? > > Just tried to play our QT video on WM player 6.4. Didn't work > (http://http.se.scene.org/pub/demos/scene.org/music/groups/commie/commie041- > ddr_rhythm-potsdam_by_night.mov). > > > or realmedia? > > Nope. > > I think it goes this way: > > RealPlayer: shows Real and (older) QT > Windows Media Player: shows Windows Media and (older) QT > Quicktime: shows QT > > So, QT has basically the biggest coverage. But in practice, the versions of > Windows Media Player I've used, never succeed to show QT, although they try > to... > > > in > > my limited > > experience on streaming stuff on the net, it's either > > realmedia, mp3 or > > quicktime. and some few sites have alternative windows media -streams > > too. > > Yeah, but M$ is trying hard to conquer the streaming video scene with its > own format. > > Probably they're thinking: "We succeeded to conquer the browser scene, why > couldn't we succeed to take over the media scene, now?" > > > Galeon? it uses Mozilla's Gecko-engine but has a lot lighter GUI than > > mozilla. fast, quite stable good browser -> > > http://galeon.sourceforge.net/] > > Nope. Linux stuff.... > > > ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com > > "Less is moo." - The Holy Mad Cow > http://www.holymadcow.org > -- F.Baube(tm) * "We can have at most 2 out of 3: G'town U. MSFS '88 * a) high degree of international [EMAIL PROTECTED] * economic integration, b) nation +358 (40) 737 6934 * -states and c) mass politics." #include <std_disclaimer.h> * -- Dani Rodrik, Harvard
