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Darwin Streaming Server Beats Real, Windows Media
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.
Who would want to stream real anyway. God that format sucks and the clients are even worse.
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Which one is better - Windoes Media Player runs on the Windows that comes with each new PC, built right in so the consumer doesn't have to do anything! It's tightly integrated with the OS just like the consumer wants it. WMP is going to win the mp wars, too. Sorry WinAmp, Real and Quicktime. That's just the way it goes these days. Better luck in the next life.
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What $30 for the ability to author content is too much for you to spare?
Talk about cheap, I mean really. They _give_ you the server, and have the unmitigated gall to ask you to pay less than one dinner for two at a nice restaurant for the software that lets you author media for it. I'm certainly glad most open source advocates aren't the cheap bastards you appear to be. Well, at least I hope I'm wrong.
Show me the Linux version, and I'll consider buying it.
I don't want to spoil the open source pep rally here but there is ONE MS product that beats the equivalent OSS product, MS Office.
Agreed, Media Player is about all I use when given the choice-- I won't even INSTALL RealPlayer, mainly due to their issues in the past with privacy. As for QuickTime, the nags are bad, true enough, but the thing that gets me is the way it constantly 'flickers' while playing video content; the entire interface redraws itself repeatedly, almost as if some code hacker at Apple were obsessed with OnPaint events and decided to redraw the whole interface anytime a WM_PAINT message was received. Needless to say, it occurs just often enough and in such a frequency that the video currently playing tends to get jerky because of it. This is the main reason I avoid QuickTime files (the plugin doesn't seem to suffer from this issue, so using it tends to work itself out okay).
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