[H-GEN] Open Source Streaming

[Rob Kearey]

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Andrae Muys wrote:

[regarding OSS streaming]

> The second still requires a cross-platform OSS player, but the server is
> there, and the APL is acceptable, even if it isn't as good as the GPL.

All the OSS streaming software in the world won't be useful if the
content creators insist on using proprietary codecs (cf: Sorenson and
QuickTime 4). There's the rub, I believe.

> Andrae

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