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QuickTime Broadcaster Available

Posted by pudge on from the my-own-little-tv-studio dept.

firegate writes "A lot of people have been thrilled since the release of Apple's Open Source Darwin Streaming Server. Unfortunately, to stream live video, you previously had to buy a product called Sorenson Broadcaster (Win/Mac). Apple has now released a tool called QuickTime Broadcaster which accomplishes the same task, except this product is free. From what I understand, this application is a scaled-down version of Sorenson's Broadcaster. Apple has only released a Mac OS X version of the program for now, so I guess that we PC guys will need to keep buying the Sorenson product for now. Hopefully, Apple will realize how profitable a Windows or Linux version could be."

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  1. Apple doesn't care how profitable by EnVisiCrypt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple doesn't care how profitable something could be on Windows and Linux.

    They're not trying to have the enormous grasp of three platforms. They are perfectly content to maintain their loyal following, and hopefully steal mindshare and eventually market share from the other two. They don't give a good god damn about whether a windows user would like it, because frankly, they don't want to have software on Windows beyond what is absolutely necessary (read: quicktime).

    As a newly appointed Mac user, I couldn't be happier with that strategy.

    Besides, how could it be profitable if they give it away for free?

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    1. Re:Apple doesn't care how profitable by Ogerman · · Score: 2, Insightful

      What on earth are you talking about? QuickTime is free, Darwin and Darwin Stream Server are open source projects, for Macs and PCs.


      No, sir. QuickTime is NOT free, nor available for Linux or *BSD, nor Open Source, nor nag-free. What the heck are you talking about? And Darwin? A hacked derivative of an old 2.x version of BSD? And btw, do you have the sourcecode to OS X? Can you audit it? Didn't think so. Yes, Apple endorsing MPEG-4 is a move in the right direction.. well, except that software patents are evil. Ungrateful? Why should I care. I've been using 'unofficial' open source MPEG-4 codecs for 2 years now. Check out XViD and FFMPEG.

      Sorry, do you care to remind us what the Open Source community has achieved in this regard.

      Why don't you do some research first and remind yourself. Start with Xine, MPlayer, and VideoLAN. And if you're interested in the cutting edge, have a look at the MPEG4IP, which has been doing AAC (mpeg-4 audio), mp4 encoding/streaming, etc. long before Quicktime.
  2. Profitable... by dogzilla · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sure Apple realizes how profitable a Windows/Linux version would be....for PC manufactures and Microsoft.

    I don't understand why everyone feels that it's Apple's job to transfer its competitive advantages to every other operating system people want to use. If you really feel that QT Broadcaster is valuable and useful - why not consider buying a Mac? OSX is unix-based, the hardware is pretty good, the price delta is pretty small, and you can even run Linux on the hardware. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

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  3. Re:5 steps to live web streaming by jeffehobbs · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Why do you need steps 6 through 10? I don't think there's any advantage to hosting the .sdp file on homepage.mac.com, as it's just a pointer to the stream coming out of your machine anyway, right...?

    ~jeff