[H-GEN] Open Source Streaming

Hilton Travis QuarkComputers at email.com
Wed Jan 12 22:16:11 EST 2000


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Hi Robert,

> [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.

Is there a high quality, high-compression OSS codec available?

Regards,
Hilton


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