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Was going to watch a video on BBC World news about Leopard, but they only offer their videos in Windows Media streaming and Real formats. Go figure. You'd think they'd have Quicktime streaming as well, since it's free for them, free for us, and everyone can watch it.
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tell me about it!
eventually they'll get round to making their new on demand player run on anything other than windows xp, but only because the independent board of bbc governers forced them to! As a license fee payer and mac user apparently I'm not entitled to use on demand TV on the web.
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Apparently you are, which is why they've pledged Mac support.
Patience.
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I've never understood why the BBC and many other entities choose Real and WiMP over QuickTime for streaming, since of the three only QuickTime is free.
Not free like Linux free, but a really free ready product made by a huge computer company.
The mind boggles.
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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The fact that QuickTime SUCKS (by all reports) on the operating system 90% of the world uses might have something to do with it, though.
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Originally Posted by analogika 
The fact that QuickTime SUCKS (by all reports) on the operating system 90% of the world uses might have something to do with it, though.
QuickTime is installed and working fine on Windows, else a lot of iPod users would be using their mp3 player as a paperweight.
The last time I heard QT sucked on Windows was in the late 90s.
Seeing as Real sucks on all OSs, I don't buy that aspiration to quality has anything to do with QT being excluded from the BBC website (and many other government websites accross the world)
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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QuickTime (.mov format and h.264) and the player works really well on Mac OS and Windows.
Real Player sucks on all OSes
WMV works well on Windows but sucks on Mac OS.
QuickTimes makes the most sense to me.
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Originally Posted by analogika
Apparently you are, which is why they've pledged Mac support.
Patience.
Yes but only because they were forced to. Left to themselves they would have stuck with xp only, and Vista eventually.
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Originally Posted by mdc
QuickTime (.mov format and h.264) and the player works really well on Mac OS and Windows.
Real Player sucks on all OSes
WMV works well on Windows but sucks on Mac OS.
I was talking about the software, not the codec.
And from what I can see, web video is often in better quality when offered as Real video than as WMV (which works really well for me on the Mac, btw - except for the initial delay when first playing locally stored WMV).
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They chose a Windows format because it has DRM, until Apple open up the iTunes video format the BBC are unlikely to use it. Its more likely that they will make a standalone player for Macs, which will almost definitely suck.
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