Ray <email@hidden> said:
>When it comes to being able to deliver content created in a codec format, Windows Media and ISO standards are about even in terms of cross platform capability. Windows Media and ISO standards (MPEG4, AAC, H.264) will play on Macs, Windows and Linux machines. However, most users will have to install something. The exceptions are Windows Media is standard on Windows based computers which dominate the market and QT is standard on OSX machines which have a single digit (but growing) market share. Corporate desktops are usually Windows based and are often locked down so the users are prevented from installing any software that is not blessed by IT. So Windows computers have to add QT, OSX users add a plug in and Linux users struggle to compile Xine, Mplayer or pick a distro that includes these all ready (or have a distro that supports the VLC binary).
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>In theory, if you are streaming consumer content, you could eliminate the corporate desktop from the market share equation which would greatly change the market share percentages of each player. In that case, 42 million iPods have all driven QT on the desktop of the users computer.
>However, you are making a poor argument to try and convince someone to stream QuickTime. QuickTime is a wrapper that contains codecs. While it is a bit of a semantical argument, the QT player is NOT available on Linux or Solaris but you can play certain QT codecs on Linux. Therefor, if you are trying to convince a client with consumer oriented content to not use Windows Media, the better argument, in my opinion, is to convince them to stream ISO standards which may be easily played on all virtually all computers. These ISO standards stream from a Darwin server under RTSP and play inside players readily available for almost any OS. But, if your client is looking to stream business oriented content than Windows Media will be hard to sell against due to the managed desktop situation in corporate environments.
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>Now if Apple made a Linux QT player......
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>Ray
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Isn't QuickTime installed on Windows along with iTunes? If so, how does that affect the proportions undergirding this argument?
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