Re: mbone and realvideo

[ken emery <ken () cnet com>]

On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, brett watson wrote:

>   we're furiously working to get mbone stuff... in the mean time,
> we'll still tape and dump to realvideo.  several folks have complained
> that the player only runs on windows, not true:
>
> freebsd (both dynamic and static link)
> mac os
> os/2
> win95/nt
> solaris (2.4 and 2.5 sparc)
> sunos 4.1.x
> irix 5.3/6.2/6.3
 
This is only true for Realvideo/realplayer 5.0 beta  The 4.0 player never 
came out for anything other than windows and mac.  So depending upon how 
stable the beta is (haven't used it yet) this might be workable.  I am 
of course assuming that the 4.0 format is compatible with the 5.0 player.
Also if you use the 5.0 format lots of people will probably have problems 
unless everyone upgrades.

> ps.  i'm still open for other formats to dump to.  real-stuff seems
> most accessible to everyone.

I would prefer MBone myself :-)

bye,
ken emery