If there is an absolute need to serve Windows Media format files, you
will need to buy a Windows server. However, WMP is only valid for
about 40% of the installed devices that can consume video. MPEG-4 is
much more widespread reaching roughly 90% of all digital-video
capable devices installed on the market today, including Windows,
Mac, Linux, cell-phones, iPods, PSPs and more. QTSS can serve
MPEG-4, so for broader reach it is the better option. MPEG-4 can be
read on a PC with clients other than QuickTime.
If you go Flash, you'll have to go Flash 8 to get halfway-decent
looking video & that was only released a little over a month ago.
The install base isn't there yet & I think it's probably easier to
just have QuickTime installed on the Windows machines. Also, if any
of those windows machines have iTunes installed, they already have
QuickTime. Given how popular the iPod & iTunes are, it's generally a
given that QT is already installed on most windows machines.
On Nov 11, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Steven Philips wrote:
Thanks in advance for your help.
Client needs to offer a large library of media (movies and audio)
to both Mac and PC users (some of which do not have Quicktime) in
both QT and Windows Media formats. I'm suggesting an xserve and
xserve raid, running OSX Server and Quicktime Streaming Server.
This will work fine for the MPEG-4 movies, but is there a need to
have the Windows Media files coming off a different server?
Different drive? What's the best setup for this? Is there a
format that will work for both? Is it worth converting everything
to flash?
Thanks again.
Steven Philips
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