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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. 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?
  2. 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.

  3. 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.