Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

[Alastair Matthews <alastair at erg.abdn.ac.uk>]

on 30/3/01 2:57 am, Ole J. Jacobsen at ole at cisco.com wrote:

> According to the Real Web page:
> 
> Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me or Windows NT 4.0, MacOS
> 
> Yes, I know no Unix variants, but the above still covers a large portion
> of IETF would-be participants. I am not suggesting that RealPlayer be
> made the standard, just an option.
> 
> However..... it now appears that the Real people have a new business
> model. The player is no longer free, but part of some stupid subscription
> service which allows "Access to the audio broadcast of every Major League
> Baseball game this season..." and all sorts of other nonsense that I
> can do without. 
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> Any good shareware player for the Mac?

Quicktime seems suitable.

Mac and Windows Clients - both free.

and a free, open source, streaming server.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/

A.


-- 
Alastair Matthews
Electronics Research Group
University of Aberdeen

alastair at erg.abdn.ac.uk

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> Ole
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> 
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 itojun at iijlab.net wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> Last I checked, the basic player is free, and implementations exists for
>>> all the major platforms, which would put it on par with PDF/Acrobat reader
>>> in my book.
>> 
>> what is the definition of "major platforms" here?
>> if you could supply a list of freely-available player implementations
>> (and URL) it would be really nice.
>> 
>> itojun
>> 
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