On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Patrick Kelso wrote:
> > Hmm, I am most baffled as to why Optus@Home have chosen to make their
> > Olympics video coverage Windows Media Player 7 only. Not
> > only does this
> > cancel out all Linux users, but Macintosh users too! The
> > latest version
> > of the player for their platform is 6.3, and will not play all of 7's
> > streaming data.
> >
> > Makes me wonder if Channel 7 like the version number,
> > although RealVideo
> > is also version 7. Actually, maybe it's 8 now [hmmm!]
> >
> > I guess it's a bit late to do anything useful about it, but
> > if you wanted,
> > you could write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and complain about it
> > (Optus@Home customers especially :P)
> >
> It is quite possible that optus is multicasting the olympics, therefore can
> only use MP7 as real does not support multicasting.
Last I saw. RealPlayer definately does Multicasting. Besides, theres other
multicasting streaming applications out there other than RealPlayer and
MediaPlayer
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