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John_Cline
wrote on 11/22/2009, 2:29 PM
The most compatible cross platform video playback delivery system is Flash. I have also had great success lately doing live video streaming using Silverlight. The complaints I used to get from the Mac folks have gone away.
As far as REAL is concerned, I don't care if it can produce pristine HD over a dial-up connection, they are one of the most sneaky and unethical companies on the Internet.
As far as REAL is concerned, I don't care if it can produce pristine HD over a dial-up connection, they are one of the most sneaky and unethical companies on the Internet.
MPM
wrote on 11/23/2009, 1:49 PM
The Headline reads: "More than 700 million hearing-impaired people by 2015" @ http://www.hear-it.org/page.dsp?page=430
Thanks to a couple of hearing-impaired people at Google, YouTube is working on Captioning, which really is great, but Flash is still AFAIK the most Caption Un-Friendly web/streaming video format. A quote about YouTube from Neowin "...just around 100,000 captioned videos available out of hundreds of millions of clips posted on the site." [http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/11/19/youtube-captions-to-use-technology-from-google-voice]
I personally think it somewhat ironic that web video folk worry about cross-platform playability, whilst in effect flipping off hundreds of millions of potential viewers! For comparison, Apple is projected to sell 33 mill. MACs 2006 - 2010 [http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/computer_industry_almanac_apple_projected_to_sell_33_million_macs/]. True, current MAC users may complain, but greasing the squeaky wheel in this case means ignoring much, Much larger audience that's so used to being dissed we hardly ever b**** anymore... I mean, why bother -- we'll just spend our $ elsewhere.
Thanks to a couple of hearing-impaired people at Google, YouTube is working on Captioning, which really is great, but Flash is still AFAIK the most Caption Un-Friendly web/streaming video format. A quote about YouTube from Neowin "...just around 100,000 captioned videos available out of hundreds of millions of clips posted on the site." [http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/11/19/youtube-captions-to-use-technology-from-google-voice]
I personally think it somewhat ironic that web video folk worry about cross-platform playability, whilst in effect flipping off hundreds of millions of potential viewers! For comparison, Apple is projected to sell 33 mill. MACs 2006 - 2010 [http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/computer_industry_almanac_apple_projected_to_sell_33_million_macs/]. True, current MAC users may complain, but greasing the squeaky wheel in this case means ignoring much, Much larger audience that's so used to being dissed we hardly ever b**** anymore... I mean, why bother -- we'll just spend our $ elsewhere.
MPM
wrote on 11/23/2009, 2:11 PM
>"Just to add to the venting about Real...
>I've scrupulously avoided having anything to do with them..."
You have every right to be ticked off, & you should be... I've got reasons to dis-like Real -- along with probably a couple dozen other companies. But there's a cliche you often hear in the movies: something to the effect that "it's nothing personal -- just business". Very often it really is just biz as usual, & whether you stay pi**** or not has really no effect on how any CEO enjoys their morning coffee. By all means vote with your wallet, & do what you will to keep whatever cash from reaching their bank deposits, but at the end of the day I think it helps to be pragmatic & not let whatever company cost you, whether it's future opportunities or sleep.
>I've scrupulously avoided having anything to do with them..."
You have every right to be ticked off, & you should be... I've got reasons to dis-like Real -- along with probably a couple dozen other companies. But there's a cliche you often hear in the movies: something to the effect that "it's nothing personal -- just business". Very often it really is just biz as usual, & whether you stay pi**** or not has really no effect on how any CEO enjoys their morning coffee. By all means vote with your wallet, & do what you will to keep whatever cash from reaching their bank deposits, but at the end of the day I think it helps to be pragmatic & not let whatever company cost you, whether it's future opportunities or sleep.
leonardom
wrote on 3/7/2010, 5:28 PM
I just read the posts about the Real sitiuation. I thought the restore option was a wise move if you can do it. Microsoft has some software tools you might be interested in using. (free)
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm
cbrillow
wrote on 3/8/2010, 7:00 AM
Old Thread Alert!
Most likely, the OP solved the problem by now, but thanks for your suggestions, anyway.
But it never hurts to remind users of the perils of Real Networks hideous products...
Most likely, the OP solved the problem by now, but thanks for your suggestions, anyway.
But it never hurts to remind users of the perils of Real Networks hideous products...
BudWzr
wrote on 3/8/2010, 6:12 PM
Real is common on Asian DVD's.