[sldev] NSV Support

[Lawson English]

Ernie Kabowski wrote:
>> gstreamer is available on windows as well.... I'd think getting rid of
>> the quicktime reliance would be a good direction to go.
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>>> If gstreamer can seamlessly wrap itself around DirectShow/Windows Media
>>> on Win32, and Quicktime on OSX, this just might be wonderful.
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>>> The problem is, media codecs are a patent licensing minefield. By using
>>> Quicktime and/or DirectShow, you push the responsibility and liability
>>> for proper licensing onto Microsoft and Apple, who have already taken
>>> care of it, and conveniently placed codecs for MP3 and MPEG4 and whatnot
>>> on everyone's systems for you.
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> The Apple media playback API has little to no streaming capabilitys in it's
> own format. Plugins are cool if you want to constantly remind people to
> install them, and provide support and documentation for all. Most players are
> NT users or Desktop Linux system users.
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??? QT on the Web predates most other formats for web streaming of audio 
and video and the current server versions seem quite feature-laden, 
though I'm not familiar with Real Player's or Microsoft's or the NSV 
equivalents, so I can't make comparisons:

http://images.apple.com/server/docs/QuickTime_Streaming_TB_v10.4.pdf


Perhaps you're thinking that the client QT player is all that is 
available as far as providing server functions for QuickTime?


> If I'm not mistaken all the viewers use FMOD for sound, so that covers a lot
> of audio codecs, and the module is very dynamic with codecs. I worked with it
> years back, and implement OGG, Shoutcast, and Icecast for a 3D game using it's
> sensor functions and buffering. I was impressed with it.
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> I can't think of anything else to do with the source outside of fixing there
> physics and rendering algorithms. I barely got threw threw 10 hours of Calc
> II though so I'll not touch those. NSV just seemed cool cause you didn't have
> the 2+ minute waiting period for a 11MB video to load on a 1.5Mbps downstream.
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> I also researched it's license. It's a GNU friendly license. The content 
> Infringement Policy's are the responsibility of the owner of the streamserver.
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> PS: What's with the Pokemon style retort with a hint of profanity?
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