Quicktime3 vs. RealPlayer

[Wayne Townsend]

Thanks, John D. for your comments...


>eh, I don't have much to say myself, but I do know that QT3 has been in

>development for quite some time, and various teams at Macromedia have been

>working with it.


My experience so far is that I can't find a single QT3 video yet that

streams as well as Real.  Or even at an acceptable rate.

Ok, it's new, and the developers probably don't have a handle on it yet.

But what's Apple's excuse for no good demos?


I'm on deadline now...  so I'm running the white flag up the pole, and

asking for help.  Can somebody educate me quickly on embedding a Real movie

in a web page - a reference to an existing Real movie is fine - it's just a

tech demo to the client, but important. I need this now; Help pls.  Any

Real people out there lurking who can help me out?

waynettopher [dot] net

>It will take awhile to establish a base of QT3 users, with both system

>software and browser plugins. Could be some attractions there in the

>future, but will take awhile to establish.


Well, if QT3 can't stream as promised, without glaring pauses, then it

isn't much use to my clients.  Evidently, Real has nothing to worry about

for the time being, regarding streaming vid.  But that's really no supprise

considering they have been focused on that for years.


>>So, tell us the story MM, and other developers who know, what's your view?

>

>For myself, the big issues will be to spread the word to *NOT* uninstall

>QTW 2.1.2. Existing PC applications work with QTW2 and won't recognize QT3.

>(On the Mac it doesn't matter, but on Windows you'll need to *add* QT3

>rather than *replace* with QT3.)


Great.


>Director and Authorware users will soon have an Xtra available to use QT3

>system extensions on both Mac and Win, and to take advantage of a few of

>the new features QT3 offers.


Wonderful.  But if QT3 won't stream video without pauses @ 28.8 then I'll

just get behind Real and RealFlash.


>I'm anticipating two year's worth of "I installed QT3 and now I can't see

>the CD" posts, myself.... ;)


More fun to come 'eh, John.


/w


Wayne Townsend

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