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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. I wish... by Glock27 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Apple would provide MacOS X for x86 in some form. A good compromise might be to only support AMD x86-64. That way I could build best-of-breed hardware (inexpensively) and run MacOS X on it, while the "average" Mac user could happily buy a Mac.

    The problem with Macs right now is that you know you have the nicest OS around...on sub-par hardware (performance wise at least) that costs too much. I could care less about "industrial design" - the ergonomics of normal PCs are sufficient.

    I know Darwin runs on x86. You just don't get any of the MacOS X user interface or graphics capabilities, and that's not good enough.

    299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!

    --
    Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
    Score: -1 100% Flamebait
  2. Re:It's the player stupid by Zico · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hey man, I would love to quit calling you stupid, but you gotta give me a reason to first. After saying you re-read the article, you're still insisting that he didn't say WMP is of higher quality, when he clearly said, "Not that I love Media Player, but it sure beats that crappy Real Player or that irritating nagware that is Quicktime."


    Furthermore, both I and the article agree that WMP is inferior in quality to Quicktime.


    Actually the article doesn't comment on the quality of WMP or the Quicktime player. But I'm trying not to call you stupid, I promise.


    is that the WMP for Macintosh is truly awful and damned near unusable


    Congratulations, now you know how non-Mac users have felt about the Quicktime player for Windows for ages now. Just look at the comments about it. Considering how long Apple's been making a Windows version, it's amazing that it's still such garbage.


    I'd like to know what your big complaint about the Quicktime Player is?


    Well, it seems like Apple finally figured out how to quit messing up people's systems with their QuickTime installation programs, so that's a plus. However, being nagware, it's very annoying. I'm not going to buy it just to view a Star Wars trailer every 6 months or so, which is about the only reason non-Mac people install it for. Even when you aren't moving it around, there is so much flicker in the interface when it plays that it truly looks like it was written by amateurs. Sometimes it even makes the desktop icons flicker it's so bad. Otherwise, it's juuuuuust wonderful.