which brings me to my final point, Windows media player, is free. you have
to pay for real, maybe optus is just being stingy.
Patrick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Rumble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 18 September 2000 11:45 AM
> To: Patrick Kelso
> Cc: 'Andrew Macks'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] Olympics on Optus@Home
>
>
> 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
>
> ---
> Anthony Rumble
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