From: "Matthew David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Few Real points...
LiFe,
I agree with you completely on the Plugin features. There is a Premiere
plugin, but it is only for Version 5 (little old, I think) and I do not know
of a more resent version.
What would be very cool, would be to integrate RealProducer with Premiere -
you know, get the best of both worlds. At the very least, a plugin should be
developed.
To your issue with WinAmp, I do not expect that Real will supply a plugin
for it. This is just my humble, honest opinion, but WinAmp is a direct
competitor with RealJukebox. What I expect to see is that RealJukeBox will
adopt the festures WinAmp and Sonique have (ie: visual effects, etc..) as
they have done with the "skins" feature.
You argument for stalling multicast until a given number of users have
logged on is fabulous. If the server can be keyed up to wait until a given
number of users want to view a file on demand you will save the network.
Contrary to popular belief, more traffic flows over our networks than will
allow Unicast broadcasts of Mpeg quality video (I wish it were the other
way, but for some reason people still like to get their email? Go figure?).
Being able to tightly control the server to the domain and the
infrastructure is vital.
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: RealForum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 1:17 PM
Subject: A Few Real points...
> From: "LiFe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: A Few Real points...
>
> I was wondering what pple though of the following Ideas that I think it
may
> be benificial for Real to implement:
>
> *** Delayed Multicast:
> To minimise bandwidth usage on a highly used server (specifically for a
> small number of files) have a feature on the real server (where all the
> folowing settings can be specified by the admins) where it will connect
> requests to a specified file (unicast) to a multicast, and display a
> countdown (or splash screen) while it waits for a specified number of
users
> or a timeout (whichever comes first) then multicasts the file.
>
> This would greatly increase the efficiency of bandwidth usage of servers
> which have many many requests for a limited number of files as it could be
> running a few simultanious multicasts to small audiences instead of many
> many unicasts.
>
> I'm not sure if its a possibility with current tcp technology... but was
> interested in some feedback.
>
> *** Winamp Plugin:
> A G2 Surestream (with all the latest whiz bang things) DSP (Digital Signal
> Processor?) plugin for Winamp that would allow encoding of playing
material
> and connection to a server (for live broadcast) or outputting to a file
> (very similar to the Shoutcast Plugin). This may appeal to a huge audience
> as a *much* better alternative to shoutcast as MPEG L3 does not sound good
> at low bitrates. There may be a high takeup of a product such as this as
> shoutcast has really taken off and winamp has massive market penetration.
>
> *** Adobe Premier Plugin:
> I think it speaks for itself? Microsoft has created one for its Windows
> Media Tools... I think a little feature: File -> Export -> Real G2 Media
> would be a highly useful commodity.
>
> I would highly apprieciate information on any of the above (if it exists)
> and any general comments.... Or information to put me into contact with
> people working on or who know about any of the above.
>
> Best Regards to all
> LiFe.
