Aside from media player classic, windows media player is the best one out there.
Really, I am a fan of Windows media player, in fact since the majority of web sites that deliver streaming media either require it or leave very few options, you need it on your machine. The market is speaking here. MS has made it easy both to create and manage streaming media while QT is a bit trickier, (no comment on RM, I don't know it well enough.)
WMP might be the best media player for Grandma, but the video industry is voting QuickTime. And if you add iTunes on top of it, Windows media player looks like a shabby Win 95 offering.
Aside from that, the quibble about API's looks pretty meaningless when Apple can create an application that looks and acts as well in Windows as it does on the Mac. I doubt Apple had any special code from MS to create iTunes that will allow it to share its playlists and see other shared iTunes playlists using Rendezvous without the user having to edit any configuration files.
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Aside from media player classic, windows media player is the best one out there.
Really, I am a fan of Windows media player, in fact since the majority of web sites that deliver streaming media either require it or leave very few options, you need it on your machine. The market is speaking here. MS has made it easy both to create and manage streaming media while QT is a bit trickier, (no comment on RM, I don't know it well enough.)
WMP might be the best media player for Grandma, but the video industry is voting QuickTime. And if you add iTunes on top of it, Windows media player looks like a shabby Win 95 offering.
Aside from that, the quibble about API's looks pretty meaningless when Apple can create an application that looks and acts as well in Windows as it does on the Mac. I doubt Apple had any special code from MS to create iTunes that will allow it to share its playlists and see other shared iTunes playlists using Rendezvous without the user having to edit any configuration files.