it's the same reason shows aren't on iTunes until a day later. The Nightly News airs at 6:30 on the east coast. Throw it online by 7:30 and you're going to cut into viewership on the west coast.
They don't want to cut into their advertising revenue in the other markets the news hits.
Throw it on at 10pm/ET and you're making it available at 7pm/PT - just after the news has finished out west.
Just a correction...
Cocoa isn't a gui front end.
Cocoa is apple's brand name for a programming language (objective c).
Carbon is sometimes referred to with Cocoa. The carbon API of Mac OS X made it easier to transition from OS 9 to OS X.
Aqua is the name for Apple's GUI.
Older hardware *had* to be made better. That's how the world worked. A hi-fi stereo was an expensive thing to buy and it had to be built to last because it was so expensive.
We still have one from the 70's with 8-track, vinyl, and a cassette player. It still works.
With new technology came a change in the marketplace. Manufactures had to balance building quality products with the ability to sell them for less knowing that people will upgrade more often.
I bought a receiver in 2000 - 5.1 channel Dolby Digital Kenwood thing. It's lasted these past 5 years with only a few minor repairs required (mostly caused by moving every year). But you can bet I've been itching to upgrade to one with Pro Logic II and DTS (and 7.1 channels even).
That's a 5 year old receiver and the fact that the newer ones have more advanced technology in them makes me want to upgrade. That simply wasn't the case decades ago when a stereo was made...
I'm thrilled with something lasts... but sometimes I'm even more thrilled when something dies and I have a chance to upgrade to the latest and greatest.
While it would be great if EVERYONE had xvid installed, your normal home user likely isn't going to have a clue what xvid is or how to install it. Stick with mpeg, it's the most compatible.
It probably wouldn't hurt to make use of some software like Cleaner as well. With software like Cleaner, you can take in one source video and output a video tailored to the bandwidth your looking for. This will keep the video's quality as high as it can possibly go for the given bandwidth. VERY very useful for getting that 42MB MPEG down to a reasonable size for a 56k home user.
I haven't looked, but I'm sure there are open source alternatives. What's nice about cleaner is it can transcode most video formats (real, wmv, quicktime, mpg...) along with compressing them.
One could use icecast and reach globally - given one has the bandwidth to do so.
On a normal DSL connection, however, you're limited to < 1MBit upstream. So, you could have (at most) about 8 people worldwide listening to your broadcast.
THEN you have to worry about licensing fees if you're really thinking about setting anything viable up.
I help operate at a 13-watt radio station at the University I work at. We are pretty popular in the radius of a few miles that we reach. Last year we added a Shoutcast stream that has proven pretty popular, but we had to limit the quality to 24k and the number of listeners so we wouldn't saturate the University's outgoing pipe.
Bandwidth alone, we pay about $800/yr in licensing to ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and SoundExchange for over-the-air and streaming rights. We're lucky, as an University, our streaming is often including in our over-the-air license and we don't have to pay per song played either.
My point. Streaming is great, but there are still a number of hurdles to jump.
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it's the same reason shows aren't on iTunes until a day later. The Nightly News airs at 6:30 on the east coast. Throw it online by 7:30 and you're going to cut into viewership on the west coast.
They don't want to cut into their advertising revenue in the other markets the news hits.
Throw it on at 10pm/ET and you're making it available at 7pm/PT - just after the news has finished out west.
Just a correction... Cocoa isn't a gui front end. Cocoa is apple's brand name for a programming language (objective c). Carbon is sometimes referred to with Cocoa. The carbon API of Mac OS X made it easier to transition from OS 9 to OS X. Aqua is the name for Apple's GUI.
Older hardware *had* to be made better. That's how the world worked. A hi-fi stereo was an expensive thing to buy and it had to be built to last because it was so expensive.
We still have one from the 70's with 8-track, vinyl, and a cassette player. It still works.
With new technology came a change in the marketplace. Manufactures had to balance building quality products with the ability to sell them for less knowing that people will upgrade more often.
I bought a receiver in 2000 - 5.1 channel Dolby Digital Kenwood thing. It's lasted these past 5 years with only a few minor repairs required (mostly caused by moving every year). But you can bet I've been itching to upgrade to one with Pro Logic II and DTS (and 7.1 channels even).
That's a 5 year old receiver and the fact that the newer ones have more advanced technology in them makes me want to upgrade. That simply wasn't the case decades ago when a stereo was made...
I'm thrilled with something lasts... but sometimes I'm even more thrilled when something dies and I have a chance to upgrade to the latest and greatest.
While it would be great if EVERYONE had xvid installed, your normal home user likely isn't going to have a clue what xvid is or how to install it. Stick with mpeg, it's the most compatible.
It probably wouldn't hurt to make use of some software like Cleaner as well. With software like Cleaner, you can take in one source video and output a video tailored to the bandwidth your looking for. This will keep the video's quality as high as it can possibly go for the given bandwidth. VERY very useful for getting that 42MB MPEG down to a reasonable size for a 56k home user.
I haven't looked, but I'm sure there are open source alternatives. What's nice about cleaner is it can transcode most video formats (real, wmv, quicktime, mpg...) along with compressing them.
One could use icecast and reach globally - given one has the bandwidth to do so. On a normal DSL connection, however, you're limited to < 1MBit upstream. So, you could have (at most) about 8 people worldwide listening to your broadcast. THEN you have to worry about licensing fees if you're really thinking about setting anything viable up. I help operate at a 13-watt radio station at the University I work at. We are pretty popular in the radius of a few miles that we reach. Last year we added a Shoutcast stream that has proven pretty popular, but we had to limit the quality to 24k and the number of listeners so we wouldn't saturate the University's outgoing pipe. Bandwidth alone, we pay about $800/yr in licensing to ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and SoundExchange for over-the-air and streaming rights. We're lucky, as an University, our streaming is often including in our over-the-air license and we don't have to pay per song played either. My point. Streaming is great, but there are still a number of hurdles to jump.