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Darwin Streaming Server Beats Real, Windows Media

Posted by pudge on from the apple-qa-people-are-superior dept.

pinqkandi writes "Network Computing recently ran an extensive shootout of video streaming servers, in areas from setup to quality to buffering times. The free, open source Darwin Streaming Server, which streams QuickTime content, edged out costly and closed source Windows Media & RealVideo streaming systems." Well, it edged out Real. It blew Microsoft away.

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  1. No surprises then by fruey · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is not ONE Microsoft product which can beat an equivalent Open Source product. Not ONE.

    However, than Real / Apple Darwin share equivalent honours, is interesting. However, Real have content, coporate sponsorship, and perhaps the easiest "player" concept.

    However, they are working hard to make money. Apple, on the other hand, already have a number of companies that subscribe to Apple for the graphics capability, are more likely to be streaming, and will use their product. They may well use it to sell Apple (even if it is cross platform) to their niche audience.

    I mean, if you have OSX, you have a Mac. And you didn't actually buy the Mac to run BSD, you bought it because it was cool/great for graphics/already used by your publishing company, etc.... no? Even if you ARE pleasantly surprised that OSX's shell is familiar, is cool, can run all your favourite friends like apache, named, etc...)

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  2. Re:It's the player stupid by feldsteins · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You, sir, are the reason that crappy technology so often beats out the good stuff in the marketplace.

    "To heck with open source, to heck with cross-platform issues, to heck with quality. Make mine WMP!"

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    You like your Macintosh better than me, don't you Dave? Dave? Can you hear me Dave?
  3. Re:Hmm... Too bad Quicktime isn't open source. by analog_line · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Load it on your unlicensed Windows partition which you guiltily use to play Starcraft. Come on, I won't tell anyone.

  4. Re:It's the player stupid by Zico · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "To heck with open source, to heck with cross-platform issues, to heck with quality. Make mine WMP!"


    Re-read his post, stupid. He just said he feels WMP is of higher quality than Real Player or Quicktime. And I'd be one of those who agree, not because WMP is the best thing since beer in a can, but because the Real and Quicktime clients are pretty poor.


    Basically you're saying, "To heck with quality, it can suck like a two-dollar whore, as long as it's open source and runs on multiple platforms it's good enough for me!" Well, I don't give a shit how many platforms WMP is on, it covers 99% of the marketplace by being on Windows and Macs. I don't care whether it's open source or not, I've got better ways of wasting my time than wading through source code. Quality is king, period, and WMP has the others beat here.

  5. Re:Apple's goal..... by mr100percent · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Geez, man. Apple Open-sources two major software apps under a public license, and all you complain about is "Why not more?" Ingrate.