[Live-devel] Windows Media Player?

[Ross Finlayson]

Following up on my earlier message:

Yes, Microsoft is a large and influential company - but so is ESPN. 
If enough large companies - like yours - lean on Microsoft asking 
them to comply with the RTSP protocol standard, then perhaps they'll 
fix their Media Player software in one of their frequent software 
updates.  But simply expecting us to (somehow) modify our server 
software to work with Windows Media Player's non-standard (and 
undocumented) variant of RTSP is counterproductive.  Instead, you 
should encourage your clients to use standards-compliant media 
players like VLC (or perhaps QuickTime Player - although I don't 
think that plays Transport Stream data).  Alternatively, you could 
make your own branded media player client (perhaps based on VLC), and 
distribute that to your clients to use instead of Windows Media 
Player.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/