Hi (Xchange), here's some news on non(un)-real streaming systems.


<monitor//3.4> FREE STREAM
[from the ninfomania newsfeed http://www.ninfomania.com ]

   Following last weeks release of QuickTime 4.0, Apple
   is stepping up its campaign against RealNetworks and
   Microsoft's new media player for a slice of the streaming
   market. In true "open-source" fashion, they are publishing
   the underlying code for a QuickTime server that supports
   up to 1,000 simultaneous video streams, can play back a
   wide variety of multimedia formats including MP3,
   Macromedia Flash, FlashPix, avi and wav files.

   The QuickTime server is "the first based on the Internet
   Engineering Task Force's real-time streaming protocol open
   standard," according to Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice
   president of product marketing.

   All you need is an Apple X Server, ha, ha, there's the
   catch, but Apple is confident it is going to be a success
   as the majority of RealNetworks' proprietary video is
   produced in QuickTime and then converted. The quality
   apparently "shines" over RealVideo, but we haven't fully
   tried and tested it yet, so they might be fibing. RealNetworks
   told us G2 would would be 80% better than 5.0 and we
   believed them, suckers.

   At the other end of the free stream market comes the Free
   Expression Project, a refreshly indepedent attempt to provide
   something practical in this freefall fest of frantic freeware.
   For both the Free Expression Project, a primary motivation
   in developing open-source alternatives to RealNetworks
   products is to wrest control of  the technology from Real.

   "My original goal in starting this was my interest in free
   speech issues," said Free Expression Project founder Lynn
   Winebarger, a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Indiana
   University. "It's a great way to help people distribute their
   content to other people without being beholden to any
   corporation. I think the only way to ensure freedom of
   expression in this area is having the distribution medium
   held in the public trust."

   //mo' ninfo: http://www.publicsource.apple.com/
   //mo' ninfo: http://www.free-expression.org/



>There may be problems getting our G2 server working for a special stream
>as G2 seems to be a major problem for our specialist webmaster (etc) for
>the last 3 months.
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>Any helping hand with an open server?
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>Borut
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