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Adobe To Open Real-Time Messaging Protocol
synodinos writes "Adobe has
announced plans
to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol specification, which is
designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between
Adobe Flash Platform technologies. This move that has followed the opening of
the AMF spec has been
received with varying degrees of enthusiasm from the RIA community."
Seems that someone confused their b with their d. It happens a lot with kids in preschool and kindergarten.
I knew that the Slashdot readership was getting younger, but I didn't realize HOW young!
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You've never heard of th Abobe Abrocat?
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..."Abobe"?!
It's not a misspelling. They're publishing the protocol for their warez versions. Hopefully it will be compatible with my Abobe Fotoshop and Akrobat.
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Which proves two things:
GP doesn't know WTF they're talking about... ...but they're right. PDF is an open standard, implemented by other vendors in a way that sucks, yet Acrobat still sucks.
In fact, Adobe has never really been known for performance. For another fun test, take a Flash video, download the FLV, and play it in any other player. Compare CPU usage.
Last I tried this, in Flash, it was over 50% of a core. In VLC, or mplayer, or pretty much anything else -- despite the fact that this is FLV, which is presumably designed for Flash -- and it's less than 1%.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Not really.
First, it's got the same problem as any other proprietary application which opens specs -- there's only one implementation, and that implementation is proprietary. Most specs at least include a reference implementation.
More importantly, how long have the specs been open? Last I checked, they were only open for developing anything but a client/viewer.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
HOW did the /. moderators get a backwards 'd'?!!
Palm trees and 8
I'm dyslexic you intense clog!
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
Um, RTMP is not a chat protocol. It is a protocol for stateful connections with multiplexed streams for downloading large amounts of media with real-time responses and quality of service requirements. It is what the Flash Player uses to download audio and video from servers. See Wikipedia. Next time, look up the topic before spouting off.