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Ian McCall

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Nov 28, 2009, 3:59:23 PM11/28/09
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Well...sort of:
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/11/microsoft-enables-silverlight-video-streaming-to-iphones.ars>

Cheers,
Ian


zoara

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Nov 29, 2009, 8:00:22 AM11/29/09
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Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
> Well...sort of:
> <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/11/microsoft-enables-silverlight-video-streaming-to-iphones.ars>

Heh. That's a pretty funny "sort of" - this is one case where I'm glad
Apple exert such draconian control over what you can and can't do on an
iPhone; the desktop silverlight browser plugin is worse than the flash
plugin...

-zoara-

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Pd

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Nov 29, 2009, 9:34:37 AM11/29/09
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Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:

> Well...sort of:
> <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/11/microsoft-enables-silverlight-video
> -streaming-to-iphones.ars>

"Silverlight [...] works the same on Macs as it does on Windows"

Really? Is it that crap on Windows as well?

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Ian McCall

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Nov 29, 2009, 9:46:20 AM11/29/09
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On 2009-11-29 13:00:22 +0000, zoara <me...@privacy.net> said:

> Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>> Well...sort of:
>> <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/11/microsoft-enables-silverlight-video-streaming-to-iphones.ars>

Heh.
>>
> That's a pretty funny "sort of" - this is one case where I'm glad
> Apple exert such draconian control over what you can and can't do on an
> iPhone; the desktop silverlight browser plugin is worse than the flash
> plugin...

The result of the 'sort of' is excellent. I haven't kept up with Vista
or 7, but it sounds to me as if soon I'll be able to stream a standard
H.264 .mp4 direct to a Windows client without any extra software
installed on the Windows side. Not totally sure about that, but I can't
imagine them making MS Media Player incompatible with some of the IIS
Media Server options, and they're supporting the <video> tag to do this.

The result could be outstanding as far as cross-platform media
streaming is concerned. Currently your choice is Flash, Flash, or
Flash. Yeah you can argue H.264, DiVX or WMV but in all cases you'd
need something extra installed - H.264 needs some DirectShow filter for
Media Player, DiVX for Linux/OS X -and- Windows, WMV needs Flip4Mac
etc..

If they really can get their act together and support H.264 streaming
without extra client faffing, I would be delighted.


Cheers,
Ian

Ben Shimmin

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Nov 29, 2009, 11:07:24 AM11/29/09
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Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org>:

[`they' being Microsoft:]

> If they really can get their act together and support H.264 streaming
> without extra client faffing, I would be delighted.

Wow, someone must have had two extra helpings of optimism with their
Sunday roast...

b.

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