[Am-info] Windows Media Player on BBC - Comments requested

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by Eric M. Hopper on 12/27/01 12:41 PM ---

>	Apple flat out refuses to make Quicktime players for anything
>but Windows and MacOS.  Also, the Sorenson codec, which is what's used
>for most Quicktime things, is encumbered by quite a thorny thicket of
>patents and NDAs.
>
>	Real produces players for lots more platforms, and I think their
>player has been reverse engineered.

Lots more, as in ____? Real's support for the Mac isn't exactly stunning, 
so it's difficult to imagine that they're doing great work for other 
alternative platforms.

I'm not aware of any reverse-engineered Real players. Just converting is 
major headache -- only Streambox Ripper was capable of converting RA to 
anything else. They were sued, and the feature was removed. Now all we've 
got are a plugin for Winamp and a freestanding shareware app -- both 
Windows only, of course.

 Mitch Stone  
 mitch@accidentalexpert.com