[opendtv] Re: Can't stream HD?
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:45:42 -0800
Life is short, and work is long.
EVERY TIME I DOWNLOAD QUICK TIME in the last few years, I have had to 1)
Make sure and go through extensive work to make sure that I don't download
the version bundled with iTunes, which I do not need; 2)despite the above, I
still seem to get iTunes, since Apple lies about this and 3) I get a "free
bonus" of Apple Updater, which I don't need and which, shortly after each
time I boot, "calls home" and sometimes prompts me for a download (and if I
reject it, repeatedly prompts me to download and install) the items
mentioned in 1 and 2 above, all over again.
This is all draining, and I DON'T NEED THE MULTIPLE HASSLES, all over again.
VLC serves my needs to play QuickTime files, which I seldom view anyway.
It ain't really "free", and it ain't quality. I can never view videos
full-screen, there is always a border, and the application never fills the
screen, but I can do all this and more (and play any media file except DVDs
and Real) with VLC. www.VideoLan.org. Which is almost completely free; it
checks for upgrades once a week or so, not EACH TIME I BOOT UP.
I also have to do some of the above with Adobe Acrobat (free version), but I
actually use that all the time, so it's much less hassle for much greater
utility.
Of course, being an Apple fan-boy, the hassles just confirm to you the value
of being an Apple fan-boy.
Being a software writer, I have set my firewall to require me to approve
each application and process that attempts to connect to the Internet, so I
can make sure that only known sub-systems can do this. I pay close
attention to which IP addresses are being accessed before I approve
anything. Periodically, I reset the white list to nothing, just to make
sure that no applications I know nothing about are phoning home. And, no I
don't use Vista.
Apple and Adobe are among the worst offenders.
John Willkie
-----Mensaje original-----
De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Craig Birkmaier
Enviado el: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:24 AM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Can't stream HD?
At 4:23 PM -0800 12/10/08, John Willkie wrote:
>Actually, I'm quite familiar with it, but I use it so seldom, and I haven't
>enjoyed the upgrader, so I've eliminated it from my
>HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run key, and I thought it a
>waste of time to upload and install it to answer the question.
>
>I use VLC and WMP quite often, and last time I checked, vlc handles
>quicktime quite well, without apple's overhead. But, the site wouldn't let
>me download or stream the file without the latest version of quicktime.
>Perhaps you see that as a benefit?
No.
What I do not understand is why you would not download the free
version of QuickTime?
Are you afraid of becoming infected by quality software?
>If it is actually 29.97 frames, then I guess we are seeing the benefits of
>multiple-pass encoding.
Perhaps. But real-time h.264 encoders are getting better every day.
You might take a look at some of the recent Apple special events
coverage that were streamed in real time.
>
>Cox hereabouts is at least as good as small systems like yours. AT&T
>U-verse, by the way, offers 18 mb/sec.
Thank you. So 8 Mbps is easily accessible today.
>
>I don't complain about my bit rate at home; I haven't been charged for it
>for almost a year.
>
And I don;t complain about my relatively slow DSL service, as it is
more than adequate for downloads and the vast majority of live
streaming sites today. But I suspect I will move to Cax broadband
soon.
Regards
Craig
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