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Originally posted by Rox@Nov 12 2002, 10:14 AM
Speaking as a multimedia producer, between the two formats, I've got to pick Windows Media. Real sucks ass.
But gods-honest-truth, QuickTime is better than both of them. It plays on any system, the quality's much better and you can do more with the files. Windows is catching up, I think, but day in and day out I make video clips and the QT files are always superior to those of Windows or Real.
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On the client side, I agree, Windows Media is probably the best all around choice. All of your windows users will have it.
QT by far has the best quality, but it requires a download. And worse yet, seems like everytime someone releases a movie trailer that I want to see, it wants me to upgrade again.
Real's player is dog doo.
However, their streaming server, Helix, is a pretty good solution. It'll run on Unix and you can stream mov, wmv or real media. I'm not aware of anything else that will do this.
Windows MMS has the advantage of being the only streaming server that offers true digital rights management. But as you'd suspect it only runs on a Windows server.
The Apple streaming server, whose name escapes me at the moment, is solid if you have someone who knows what they're doing to configure it and admin it. You dont see a lot of Mac's parked in ISP data centers. I can see it now....rack mounts available in pastel colors...