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Players - Should I have a variety of them?
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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I'm learning web development right now and was wondering should I have other players such as Realtime and Windows Media Player on board for any reason?
I'm concerned that developing sites on a Mac may have limitations for people accessing my site on a pc.
You're advice is much appreciated.
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Most people have QuickTime installed. If you wish to be kind to the PC folk you could offer Real, too. But I personally refuse to support or tolerate WMV.
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In general, your best bet is to stick to one of the MPEG formats, preferably MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 (using the real .mp4 container, not .avi). All three of the big media players can handle this format, and so you'll be good to go no matter what they have installed.
The one reservation I'd have wit MPEG-4 is that a fair number of people still don't have machines which can run it well. MPEG-1 is guaranteed to work virtually everywhere, and so it's good for small clips, but its compression isn't great so you risk having the download become too large if you have a big or long clip.
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Originally posted by Big Mac:
Most people have QuickTime installed. If you wish to be kind to the PC folk you could offer Real, too. But I personally refuse to support or tolerate WMV.
I'll go ahead and give you the completely opposite advice: If you wish to be kind to the PC folk, you could offer WMV too. But I personally refuse to support or tolerate Real.
After all, WMP is the standard media player on Windows, and unlike Real, it's not a spyware-ridden, crash-prone piece of junk software that automatically assumes you want to do everything the RealPlayer way 
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speaking of which, i have about 8 gigs of client videos already encoded as real .rm files...i have a server with quicktime streaming server and i'd love to take advantage of it. is there any way to convert .rm to something that would work wit the qtss?
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Originally posted by Oisín:
I'll go ahead and give you the completely opposite advice: If you wish to be kind to the PC folk, you could offer WMV too. But I personally refuse to support or tolerate Real.
After all, WMP is the standard media player on Windows, and unlike Real, it's not a spyware-ridden, crash-prone piece of junk software that automatically assumes you want to do everything the RealPlayer way
There is no spyware in RealPlayer. Have you had any problem with RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS X? It's just a native, drag-install, Cocoa-based Mac application.
RealMedia is often used because it's an open-source architecture available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and free server and player software is available.
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