Does that mean that we should all turn our noses up at the ATI drivers that are coming from Novell? No matter what else you think you heard or read, that facts are that Novel and its relationship with AMD is the only reason the OSS world is finally going to get a 3D graphics driver. Open Source 3D driver you mean. NVidia is releasing near-windows capability 3d graphic drivers/Linux for years, Matrox is releasing their professional cards driver for years.
Novell is NOT that Novell which actually competed Microsoft and showed their offerings as a joke years ago, stop dreaming.
I have problems with DivX management. Yes those suits.
Pasting from DivX for Mac (note,even Mac) EULA.
"NO TRANSCODING: You are prohibited from using the Software with software or hardware products whose purpose is to "transcode" or convert DivX video or DivX Media Format content into an alternate format." --> You know what it means
"PRIVACY POLICY: During the installation process and through use of the software covered hereunder, we may collect non-personally identifiable information, as well as personally-identifiable information, all as set forth in our Privacy Policy, available at http://www.divx.com/legal/privacy.php; please read it. " --> Actually does, sends data to some.cc domain via pingie.exe executable OS X app.
That is the trick... Net promises multi platform but there isn't a single end user/commercial application featuring Net available on Linux or even OS X.
That is why everyone stays away from MS technologies, especially media. I would trade a bulky but standard mpeg4 or even mpeg 2 to Windows Media.
Java has already working, real life applications, examples which are hugely popular such as Azureus.
Currently, 99% of spam I report comes from Korea (Kornet, again!) and advertises sites in China selling illegal drugs.
Spamcop.net (.com is fake) and their users do the job free reporting them without any kind of wrong information out there. If a single IP sends 10.000 mails and you see figures like (1200 mails sent, 900 bounces), they have a "guy" in that ISP or the ISP's native country is supporting it.
Note that the list is current top mail senders (legit or spam) of planet.
It includes my own country too. Rather than getting blocked soon even for browsing, they better get blocked and get rid of those worms, secure their freaking port 25,135.
I remember purchasing a broken modem back in the BBS times and modem had a weird bug crashing whatever modem (rack) answers it. End of the day, I was in caller ID block list of all BBS'es I called.:)
In 2007 people can get infected and just because that $30 they pay, they have right to spam entire planet choking up bandwidth, risking other computers down to medical networks. Companies like fastmail.fm, small mail providers have already setup some good RBL/Filtering schemes and they don't ignore a single spammer. I am using their cheapest option and I didn't get a single spam even into my "Junk" mailbox.
So if they stop acting "politically correct" or they don't get afraid of Chinese etc. government, they can stop spam very effectively.
Whoever owns a ISP grade line and can't get rid of those "paying customers" who spams/probes entire planet is an idiot regardless of nationality.
Thing is, US ISP guys or those German guys actually reads spam reports and take counter measures. You see "ISP has already taken action against it, spam will cease". On those idiot ISPs having enormous bandwidth, you either get your report bounced or as in one time, idiot sends abuse report to your ISP since you sent them abuse report!
I am using OS X here and 4-5 KB of my paid bandwidth is gone to stupid port 135 worm probes. I am a Spamcop user since it was founded, I keep reporting Korean spam for 6 years, sorry if I call some people "idiots". I am not Yahoo Inc. or something, I don't have future billion dollar deal plans with them.
They should provide a tiny "windows media player 7" uninstaller immediately since that crap does create OS/browser problems on PPC Macs too.
Of course to trick people that they are multiplatform, they keep that junk downloadable and sadly it always ends up at top 10 Apple most downloaded applications at apple.com
If anyone runs OS X 10.4.x and didn't pay for Broadband radio etc., they should get rid of it immediately. If it creates problem, _all_ browsers will have problem thanks to central "Internet Plugins" arch of OS X.
If one is paranoid enough, you can think they keep that junk online on purpose so Mac users who believes in official software releases will live hell on their competitor OS. Sadly I can imagine there are lots of people who uses it under Rosetta emulation wondering why their $1400 laptop can't play a video smoothly or why their browsers keep crashing.
BTW, I hear they use Universal (Intel) as excuse, it took Real Networks 1 or 2 months at most to release a working Universal binary Realplayer. MS can't really code? I bet they have more tea serving people than Real Networks developers.
Why WMV? Why can't it be MPEG4 format? WMV is Windows Media, it will stay as Windows media especially after MS discontinued their working Windows Media Player using Universal binary as excuse.
MPEG4 has no DRM. Further any idea how much broadcast licence costs for MPEG4? Do you think it's free? Yep, Internet streaming is broadcast again, and WMV is cheaper to broadcast than MPEG4. Why don't you ask "Why cheaper?". I know lots of companies opted in to be windows media exclusive because MS offered their media server almost free. Now it turned out to be lot more expensive since they are re-encoding or transcoding thousands of hours of stuff now because Flash, thanks to its non-nagging and small nature became de-facto standard. (Which is wrong IMHO)
Price is not everything, the standards matter since nobody would want to be enslaved to a single platform and a company rather than industry professional boards. That is why EBU(.ch) like organisations exist and they even tell the specs of TV monitors they should look for.
Quicktime and Real have DRM support for almost a decade. Real calls it "DRM" plain and simple, Apple knows how to communicate so they call it "Fairplay" or "Quicktime Media Keys". Mpeg 4 itself is based on Quicktime and additionally Real openly says that they will use (already uses) MPEG-4/AAC on high bandwidth content. It makes MS WMV the only non standard format out there.
A format being "standard" or "open" doesn't mean it is free of course. They will likely pay the mpeg 4 license with the encoding tools/hardware. Real or Apple DRM will be used to secure (in fact,create hassle) and both companies have good record of being OS neutral. Yes, Apple releases Quicktime Client on their major competitor Windows and they never missed a single minor release releasing them same time. It was the same deal even while Apple was called "dead" company 10 times a day.
Let me show what happens when you use Wmedia: Check Vuze.com , commercial company of a Java 5/6 application which really "runs everywhere". They already _sell_ BBC Content, when you want to buy them with your CC in hand, you are introduced with "Sorry, Windows Only". A client which is coded in pure java can't sell paid content to people who are running it flawlessly. That is the cheap Windows Media for you.
I am not saying "Use Flash"- I am just trying to explain that just because a player exists on Linux/OS X, it doesn't make a technology "multiplatform".
That could shock you but, just because you like to make up things in your own way, doesn't mean you can work around common sense.
BBC needs multiplatform WMV player: Silverlight is such a player with support from Mono.
Whether Moonlight will continue to be supported by MS is completely irrelevant. The existing version will not stop playing WMV-s, which is the only thing BBC needs. Why WMV? Why can't it be MPEG4 format? WMV is Windows Media, it will stay as Windows media especially after MS discontinued their working Windows Media Player using Universal binary as excuse.
Industry decided to use MPEG-4 , that is it. It won't change whatever MS does or whichever government TV they bribe to. Everything down to Taiwan cheap media players to Real high bandwidth content/satellite feed are MPEG-4 now. Windows Media is a failed format.
Sorry for being off-topic but I am really interested in knowing which is the free antivirus that ``was taking whole CPU cycles trying to "scan" gigabyte level raw videos while it was asked to ignore them,, I reported that issue to AV vendor, it seems they didn't think about some configuration that machine has and they fixed it with a slight code update.
As they were really responsive and the issue is fixedt, I better not say their name.
If large mail servers/companies give end users a simple method to block China, Korea IP blocks and disable it by default, it would be a very nice "warning shot" to those idiots.
See how those idiot ISPs start to care about thousands of spamcop.net reports , open proxy warnings that time.
SPF or DomainKeys won't matter if the companies doesn't reject non compliant mails. If Spam vs Real mail ratio has hit 98% from a single country and that company doesn't warn them to clean up that mess or they will be blocked, they won't enable "reject non SPF/Domain Key" rule.
I just reported 10 fresh IP's spamming my servers actually KNOWING the ISP's will just sit there and smile, I did for Spamcop BL purposes of course.
They are either 1)Bribed by those spammers 2) Declare a war to US companies that way, e.g. if Adobe loses money, US loses money too.
There can't be ANY other explanation, I am speaking about a single IP (consumer!) 20.000 mails and didn't even get a single slight warning. I don't give a heck to those "They don't know English" excuse. If they don't know English, they should get outsourced management for those OC-192 monsters.
If companies such as MS (Hotmail), Yahoo, Google (GMail), AOL manage to deal with problem in much more aggressive ways, you will see 70% of spam vanishes. Those ISPs offering T3 grade lines to those zombie machines doesn't even bother to block port 25 and make it a "opt in" service.
I am not saying "Use Flash"- I am just trying to explain that just because a player exists on Linux/OS X, it doesn't make a technology "multiplatform".
I don't trust to Mono guys or the company behind them. They gave up being a true innovative competitor to Microsoft a long time ago now.
Personally I would go for Real Networks technologies since they are the only company having a complete server/client offer with DRM on all platforms down to AIX.
You can create a full feature web site on Notepad by hand coding, why everyone uses Dream Weaver? Or you can code a windows program via gcc, why everyone is using Visual Studio?
Just because it is text, XML, it doesn't change Microsoft attitude at least. They don't have a working official media player with DRM for OS X, the OS which the CONTENT they sell is created. That is Microsoft for you.
As a Quad G5 (4x 2500) Mac owner with lots of RAM, I really don't want a browser choking up an entire CPU and flooding my memory.
Why? You have all that hardware, why not use it? I mean unless it starts to intefere with your real work, and there is no evidence that it is doing that, then you are fine. I could spare my CPU(s) to compressing SD uncompressed Video to MPEG4/ASP profile which may take 390% (in OS X way of telling 4 cpus) and same time, reply to some webmails using the spare 10% CPU not flooded by browser without effecting any real work.
I have seen some badly coded applications may take 80% CPU and leak like 1 gigabyte real RAM (impossible to release), why they should leak? Would I max my RAM to 16 gigabytes and buy a external mpeg4/h264 compressor just because I can work with a buggy program?
I have seen a Windows cluster with total 16 CPUs or something go down to its knees because a Windows service (some virtual cc processor) got stuck. CPU/memory flood is really evil.
I was testing a commercial products beta, its developer said "Memory usage is not a problem, I didn't optimise it, what matters is does it GROW?", that is what every serious developer out there is afraid of.
Perhaps, but the BBC content is free. The DRM exists just to expire the content. Not tat it works, I just crack it with fairuse4wm.
Makes me wonder, why aren't they simply using Silverlight. Supports WMV, WVM's DRM, and is multiplatform (Silverlight on Windows/Mac and 100% compatible Moonlight on Linux). Adobe products are multi platform, Silverlight/Moonlight is not. Can you create content on Linux/OS X? Just a bribed Novell coded plugin doesn't make difference.
Also there is no guarantee that Silverlight 2 (embraced and extended!) with having some real important functions will be released as "Moonlight 2". Where is Mono supporting.NET 2.x ?
They can use _any_ DRM of their choice as long as it is true multiplatform, Real comes to mind, even Quicktime DRM is possible. What should be done is stick with true standards like mpeg4/ASP or h264 which whole industry is moving.
They are already broadcasting in mpeg 4 if they have HD broadcast. DVB-S broadcast is mpeg-2 already.
I was trying to joke with outdated information. That "Qt is not GPL" discussion still amazingly stays while Trolltech says "It is GPL if your project is GPL" for ages.:)
Don't let the Desktop versions memory usage fool you, it is mostly RAM Cache, not memory "flood". Instead of flooding memory, they use it for a good reason and release immediately when another app needs it.
That is not possible. Opera cannot know when another app needs memory.
They allocate the memory in a way that OS takes the memory when needed. Non blocking way or something. It was discussed when they came with "memory cache" idea back in 6.x days.
For example Mac version uses a lot less memory when hidden and taken back to view.
Perhaps, but the BBC content is free. The DRM exists just to expire the content. Not tat it works, I just crack it with fairuse4wm. Your "crack" is possibly known by industry professionals out there, the reason for DRM is to give hassle to user and legally make them responsible for their actions.
I don't think anyone in TV/Audio industry believes DRM really works.
Is this really that hard? 320x240 junk with a complete closed codec which requires Flash 9?
To tell how close company to Microsoft that produces their codec is: They don't even bother to release Quicktime export component which is the industry standard. If you don't have Quicktime Export plugin, your format is "AVI Only" and you are considered a joke in professional video scene.
Thank God Apple managed to convince them to use MPEG4/H264 as alternative.
I don't want to heat up things but I would ask for a 5.1 or at least Dolby Pro Logic II hinted audio along with low compression ratio if I infect my system with DRM. Lets not forget it should be at least PAL resolution too. We are paying for this yes?
Wouldn't every six weeks be more appropriate? How long does it take to make a player cross-platform?
It will take a LOT since they didn't choose a true multiplatform server/client structure such as Real, Quicktime at first hand.
If I was a British citizen and paying to BBC, I would ask a full govt. investigation for this "iPlayer" scandal. In fact, doesn't UK have respected IT media to dig this?
If you hate Real, Quicktime is there. I am sure Apple wouldn't miss the chance to ship Quicktime framework for Linux using this as excuse. Both Real and Quicktime are MPEG standard based products these days, there is no "Sorenson" or something anymore, it is all MPEG 4 on high bandwidth content.
Mac OS X is more popular than Vista. It could be or it could be not but lets not forget the "iTunes music store" became success while it was Macintosh/PPC only. So, the Mac community pays for content. I am assuming they don't pay as much as MS Wmedia Team pays;)
There will be a Vista version of BBC iPlayer available this year. We are actively working on Mac and cross platform support.
It shows where their priority is
Cider I say... Yes, they will ship a x86 Cider (commercial WINE) thing which still uses MS Wmedia and its DRM. Only difference is, it will be named.app or.i386 and claim to be multiplatform.
It will be easy to figure out, just watch OS X version, if it releases as "Intel only" , it is WINE:)
Happy prisoning yourself to non standard formats while even Real networks moved to Mpeg 4 on high bandwidth BBC guys!
Sad thing is, Opera INVENTED those (yes, quick menu) back in 6.x or 5.x days and they were copied by other browsers without even mentioning their name. They instantly copied "Quick Dial" too but no, we can't say a word, they are open source and GPL!
Now, they are used as something to attack browser without any base. I wonder when will someone claim that he/she is not using Opera because it doesn't have "
Typing this from Omniweb/OS X which invented popup blocking, site specific preferences, live bookmarks back in the day. On my Windows days, I was asked "Why pay for a browser?" since Opera was commercial that time, now using Omniweb and getting same question:) Because they are coded professionally and they have excellent manners communicating with their users even after they (Opera) became freeware.
Safari 3 on OS X is really optimised for your CPU and it uses system frameworks whenever possible. E.g. when it renders a jpeg, it calls jpeg framework which is said to be the industries fastest rendering thing out there. Quartz is heavily used too.
Opera 9.5 is QT 4 and I don't think they are at "optimise" stage yet, they want something out and it is really alpha quality. Alpha/beta became really confusing these days, I am writing this on Omniweb "sneaky peek" (Alpha) which I made my main browser a long time ago. Safari 3 beta is really a final like quality thing too. Your "nightly" must be even a lot more stable/optimised. They release Safari 3 along with Leopard, I don't think they would have any "beta" or "nightly" quality code out there.
I haven't got any figures, but subjectively I find konqueror faster than firefox. I don't often use it because so many sites don't render well, but speed wise I would rate it as much faster It could have something to do with Flash not supported on PowerPC/X11 but here on OS X, I found Konqueror working lot more smoother than Apple Safari thanks to Finkproject(.org) installed KDE 3.5.7
The memory figures especially were impressive.
I tested Digg.com etc which are browser murderers as you may guess.
Does it choke rendering Digg's Sucky Comment system, like FF? I did the evil Digg.com test and slashdot beta test, never goes up over 5% CPU which is AMAZING!!!! (hi digg guys)
Slashdot Mirror
Novell is NOT that Novell which actually competed Microsoft and showed their offerings as a joke years ago, stop dreaming.
"My opinions are my own, they do not represents the views of my employer." --> Sure,it sounds like MSFT coder talking as usual.
See you when Silverlight 2 ships with DirectX bindings all over the place.
I have problems with DivX management. Yes those suits.
.cc domain via pingie.exe executable OS X app.
Pasting from DivX for Mac (note,even Mac) EULA.
"NO TRANSCODING: You are prohibited from using the Software with software or hardware products whose purpose is to "transcode" or convert DivX video or DivX Media Format content into an alternate format." --> You know what it means
"PRIVACY POLICY: During the installation process and through use of the software covered hereunder, we may collect non-personally identifiable information, as well as personally-identifiable information, all as set forth in our Privacy Policy, available at http://www.divx.com/legal/privacy.php; please read it. " --> Actually does, sends data to some
That is the trick... Net promises multi platform but there isn't a single end user/commercial application featuring Net available on Linux or even OS X.
That is why everyone stays away from MS technologies, especially media. I would trade a bulky but standard mpeg4 or even mpeg 2 to Windows Media.
Java has already working, real life applications, examples which are hugely popular such as Azureus.
Currently, 99% of spam I report comes from Korea (Kornet, again!) and advertises sites in China selling illegal drugs.
:)
Spamcop.net (.com is fake) and their users do the job free reporting them without any kind of wrong information out there. If a single IP sends 10.000 mails and you see figures like (1200 mails sent, 900 bounces), they have a "guy" in that ISP or the ISP's native country is supporting it.
Their parent company (now owned by Cisco) gives their stats free:
http://www.senderbase.org/home/detail_get_domain
Note that the list is current top mail senders (legit or spam) of planet.
It includes my own country too. Rather than getting blocked soon even for browsing, they better get blocked and get rid of those worms, secure their freaking port 25,135.
I remember purchasing a broken modem back in the BBS times and modem had a weird bug crashing whatever modem (rack) answers it. End of the day, I was in caller ID block list of all BBS'es I called.
In 2007 people can get infected and just because that $30 they pay, they have right to spam entire planet choking up bandwidth, risking other computers down to medical networks. Companies like fastmail.fm, small mail providers have already setup some good RBL/Filtering schemes and they don't ignore a single spammer. I am using their cheapest option and I didn't get a single spam even into my "Junk" mailbox.
So if they stop acting "politically correct" or they don't get afraid of Chinese etc. government, they can stop spam very effectively.
Whoever owns a ISP grade line and can't get rid of those "paying customers" who spams/probes entire planet is an idiot regardless of nationality.
Thing is, US ISP guys or those German guys actually reads spam reports and take counter measures. You see "ISP has already taken action against it, spam will cease". On those idiot ISPs having enormous bandwidth, you either get your report bounced or as in one time, idiot sends abuse report to your ISP since you sent them abuse report!
I am using OS X here and 4-5 KB of my paid bandwidth is gone to stupid port 135 worm probes. I am a Spamcop user since it was founded, I keep reporting Korean spam for 6 years, sorry if I call some people "idiots". I am not Yahoo Inc. or something, I don't have future billion dollar deal plans with them.
They should provide a tiny "windows media player 7" uninstaller immediately since that crap does create OS/browser problems on PPC Macs too.
Of course to trick people that they are multiplatform, they keep that junk downloadable and sadly it always ends up at top 10 Apple most downloaded applications at apple.com
If anyone runs OS X 10.4.x and didn't pay for Broadband radio etc., they should get rid of it immediately. If it creates problem, _all_ browsers will have problem thanks to central "Internet Plugins" arch of OS X.
If one is paranoid enough, you can think they keep that junk online on purpose so Mac users who believes in official software releases will live hell on their competitor OS. Sadly I can imagine there are lots of people who uses it under Rosetta emulation wondering why their $1400 laptop can't play a video smoothly or why their browsers keep crashing.
BTW, I hear they use Universal (Intel) as excuse, it took Real Networks 1 or 2 months at most to release a working Universal binary Realplayer. MS can't really code? I bet they have more tea serving people than Real Networks developers.
MPEG4 has no DRM. Further any idea how much broadcast licence costs for MPEG4? Do you think it's free? Yep, Internet streaming is broadcast again, and WMV is cheaper to broadcast than MPEG4. Why don't you ask "Why cheaper?". I know lots of companies opted in to be windows media exclusive because MS offered their media server almost free. Now it turned out to be lot more expensive since they are re-encoding or transcoding thousands of hours of stuff now because Flash, thanks to its non-nagging and small nature became de-facto standard. (Which is wrong IMHO)
Price is not everything, the standards matter since nobody would want to be enslaved to a single platform and a company rather than industry professional boards. That is why EBU(.ch) like organisations exist and they even tell the specs of TV monitors they should look for.
Quicktime and Real have DRM support for almost a decade. Real calls it "DRM" plain and simple, Apple knows how to communicate so they call it "Fairplay" or "Quicktime Media Keys". Mpeg 4 itself is based on Quicktime and additionally Real openly says that they will use (already uses) MPEG-4/AAC on high bandwidth content. It makes MS WMV the only non standard format out there.
A format being "standard" or "open" doesn't mean it is free of course. They will likely pay the mpeg 4 license with the encoding tools/hardware. Real or Apple DRM will be used to secure (in fact,create hassle) and both companies have good record of being OS neutral. Yes, Apple releases Quicktime Client on their major competitor Windows and they never missed a single minor release releasing them same time. It was the same deal even while Apple was called "dead" company 10 times a day.
Let me show what happens when you use Wmedia: Check Vuze.com , commercial company of a Java 5/6 application which really "runs everywhere". They already _sell_ BBC Content, when you want to buy them with your CC in hand, you are introduced with "Sorry, Windows Only". A client which is coded in pure java can't sell paid content to people who are running it flawlessly. That is the cheap Windows Media for you.
That could shock you but, just because you like to make up things in your own way, doesn't mean you can work around common sense.
BBC needs multiplatform WMV player: Silverlight is such a player with support from Mono.
Whether Moonlight will continue to be supported by MS is completely irrelevant. The existing version will not stop playing WMV-s, which is the only thing BBC needs. Why WMV? Why can't it be MPEG4 format? WMV is Windows Media, it will stay as Windows media especially after MS discontinued their working Windows Media Player using Universal binary as excuse.
Industry decided to use MPEG-4 , that is it. It won't change whatever MS does or whichever government TV they bribe to. Everything down to Taiwan cheap media players to Real high bandwidth content/satellite feed are MPEG-4 now. Windows Media is a failed format.
As they were really responsive and the issue is fixedt, I better not say their name.
If large mail servers/companies give end users a simple method to block China, Korea IP blocks and disable it by default, it would be a very nice "warning shot" to those idiots.
See how those idiot ISPs start to care about thousands of spamcop.net reports , open proxy warnings that time.
SPF or DomainKeys won't matter if the companies doesn't reject non compliant mails. If Spam vs Real mail ratio has hit 98% from a single country and that company doesn't warn them to clean up that mess or they will be blocked, they won't enable "reject non SPF/Domain Key" rule.
I just reported 10 fresh IP's spamming my servers actually KNOWING the ISP's will just sit there and smile, I did for Spamcop BL purposes of course.
They are either
1)Bribed by those spammers
2) Declare a war to US companies that way, e.g. if Adobe loses money, US loses money too.
There can't be ANY other explanation, I am speaking about a single IP (consumer!) 20.000 mails and didn't even get a single slight warning. I don't give a heck to those "They don't know English" excuse. If they don't know English, they should get outsourced management for those OC-192 monsters.
If companies such as MS (Hotmail), Yahoo, Google (GMail), AOL manage to deal with problem in much more aggressive ways, you will see 70% of spam vanishes. Those ISPs offering T3 grade lines to those zombie machines doesn't even bother to block port 25 and make it a "opt in" service.
I am not saying "Use Flash"- I am just trying to explain that just because a player exists on Linux/OS X, it doesn't make a technology "multiplatform".
I don't trust to Mono guys or the company behind them. They gave up being a true innovative competitor to Microsoft a long time ago now.
Personally I would go for Real Networks technologies since they are the only company having a complete server/client offer with DRM on all platforms down to AIX.
You can create a full feature web site on Notepad by hand coding, why everyone uses Dream Weaver? Or you can code a windows program via gcc, why everyone is using Visual Studio?
Just because it is text, XML, it doesn't change Microsoft attitude at least. They don't have a working official media player with DRM for OS X, the OS which the CONTENT they sell is created. That is Microsoft for you.
Why? You have all that hardware, why not use it? I mean unless it starts to intefere with your real work, and there is no evidence that it is doing that, then you are fine. I could spare my CPU(s) to compressing SD uncompressed Video to MPEG4/ASP profile which may take 390% (in OS X way of telling 4 cpus) and same time, reply to some webmails using the spare 10% CPU not flooded by browser without effecting any real work.
I have seen some badly coded applications may take 80% CPU and leak like 1 gigabyte real RAM (impossible to release), why they should leak? Would I max my RAM to 16 gigabytes and buy a external mpeg4/h264 compressor just because I can work with a buggy program?
I have seen a Windows cluster with total 16 CPUs or something go down to its knees because a Windows service (some virtual cc processor) got stuck. CPU/memory flood is really evil.
I was testing a commercial products beta, its developer said "Memory usage is not a problem, I didn't optimise it, what matters is does it GROW?", that is what every serious developer out there is afraid of.
Makes me wonder, why aren't they simply using Silverlight. Supports WMV, WVM's DRM, and is multiplatform (Silverlight on Windows/Mac and 100% compatible Moonlight on Linux). Adobe products are multi platform, Silverlight/Moonlight is not. Can you create content on Linux/OS X? Just a bribed Novell coded plugin doesn't make difference.
Also there is no guarantee that Silverlight 2 (embraced and extended!) with having some real important functions will be released as "Moonlight 2". Where is Mono supporting
They can use _any_ DRM of their choice as long as it is true multiplatform, Real comes to mind, even Quicktime DRM is possible. What should be done is stick with true standards like mpeg4/ASP or h264 which whole industry is moving.
They are already broadcasting in mpeg 4 if they have HD broadcast. DVB-S broadcast is mpeg-2 already.
I was trying to joke with outdated information. That "Qt is not GPL" discussion still amazingly stays while Trolltech says "It is GPL if your project is GPL" for ages. :)
Opera uses commercial Qt license of course.
That is not possible. Opera cannot know when another app needs memory.
They allocate the memory in a way that OS takes the memory when needed. Non blocking way or something. It was discussed when they came with "memory cache" idea back in 6.x days.For example Mac version uses a lot less memory when hidden and taken back to view.
Not tat it works, I just crack it with fairuse4wm. Your "crack" is possibly known by industry professionals out there, the reason for DRM is to give hassle to user and legally make them responsible for their actions.
I don't think anyone in TV/Audio industry believes DRM really works.
To tell how close company to Microsoft that produces their codec is: They don't even bother to release Quicktime export component which is the industry standard. If you don't have Quicktime Export plugin, your format is "AVI Only" and you are considered a joke in professional video scene.
Thank God Apple managed to convince them to use MPEG4/H264 as alternative.
I don't want to heat up things but I would ask for a 5.1 or at least Dolby Pro Logic II hinted audio along with low compression ratio if I infect my system with DRM. Lets not forget it should be at least PAL resolution too. We are paying for this yes?
It will take a LOT since they didn't choose a true multiplatform server/client structure such as Real, Quicktime at first hand.
If I was a British citizen and paying to BBC, I would ask a full govt. investigation for this "iPlayer" scandal. In fact, doesn't UK have respected IT media to dig this?
If you hate Real, Quicktime is there. I am sure Apple wouldn't miss the chance to ship Quicktime framework for Linux using this as excuse. Both Real and Quicktime are MPEG standard based products these days, there is no "Sorenson" or something anymore, it is all MPEG 4 on high bandwidth content.
Timelines for other platforms
There will be a Vista version of BBC iPlayer available this year. We are actively working on Mac and cross platform support.
It shows where their priority is
Cider I say... Yes, they will ship a x86 Cider (commercial WINE) thing which still uses MS Wmedia and its DRM. Only difference is, it will be namedIt will be easy to figure out, just watch OS X version, if it releases as "Intel only" , it is WINE
Happy prisoning yourself to non standard formats while even Real networks moved to Mpeg 4 on high bandwidth BBC guys!
Sad thing is, Opera INVENTED those (yes, quick menu) back in 6.x or 5.x days and they were copied by other browsers without even mentioning their name. They instantly copied "Quick Dial" too but no, we can't say a word, they are open source and GPL!
:) Because they are coded professionally and they have excellent manners communicating with their users even after they (Opera) became freeware.
Now, they are used as something to attack browser without any base. I wonder when will someone claim that he/she is not using Opera because it doesn't have "
Typing this from Omniweb/OS X which invented popup blocking, site specific preferences, live bookmarks back in the day. On my Windows days, I was asked "Why pay for a browser?" since Opera was commercial that time, now using Omniweb and getting same question
Safari 3 on OS X is really optimised for your CPU and it uses system frameworks whenever possible. E.g. when it renders a jpeg, it calls jpeg framework which is said to be the industries fastest rendering thing out there. Quartz is heavily used too.
Opera 9.5 is QT 4 and I don't think they are at "optimise" stage yet, they want something out and it is really alpha quality. Alpha/beta became really confusing these days, I am writing this on Omniweb "sneaky peek" (Alpha) which I made my main browser a long time ago. Safari 3 beta is really a final like quality thing too. Your "nightly" must be even a lot more stable/optimised. They release Safari 3 along with Leopard, I don't think they would have any "beta" or "nightly" quality code out there.
The memory figures especially were impressive.
I tested Digg.com etc which are browser murderers as you may guess.
Yes, the Qt it is based on is not GPL! Evil trolltech! ;)