>I hate to tell you this, Mike, but directly pasting the link into Media
>Player doesn't work either.
So I've been told...
>Better start checking those monthly iMac sales figures, Mike <g>.
>
Developers magazine DEc 88 issue shows 2.8% including iMacs.
>Bill Silvers raises a good point: I'm pretty sure that Media Player was
>built to play Real Audio streams; in fact, the Real Audio people complained
>when MP first came out that it disabled Real Player on any computer on
>which it was installed. It's quite possible that the latest Real Audio
>Player (G2 I think, also in early beta on the Mac side) will play Media
>Player streams.
Media player handles Real and a bunch of other formats also. I don't know
whether the new G2 supports Mediaplayer yet but I do find it interesting
that Microsoft owns a rather substantial chunk of Real.com stock.
>As well, aren't there a few alternatives to these two that you TwangCast
>boys might consider? Shockwave, Audioative (both of which Carl Z's station
>use, if I'm not mistaken), Streamworks, etc.?
Those formats were investigated and it was determined that they too had
drawbacks (like integration capabilities that we needed) that would
eventually leave them behind and our intent is to be on the cutting edge and
the research showed that the future lies in MMP so that's where we are. If
Microsoft ever gets it together for Mac I'll be ecstatic. When we first
started we had some Netscape problems but those are mostly resolved now and
I'm sure the Mac problems will soon be resolved also. In a perfect world,
there would be a single standard and it wouldn't cost a fortune to stream,
but it ain't perfect, we develop using Microsoft NT and that license allows
us unlimited streams and multicasting thereby (theoretically) making the
signal available to the largest number of people.
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