[Live-devel] Windows Media Player?

[Matt Schuckmannn]

Dude, he didn't ask you to modify your server, he asked if anybody out 
there has successfully make the necessary changes to make it work, 
perhaps in there own branch of the project. Since you have made this an 
open source project there is a good chance somebody in the community of 
users has done this and they might be willing to help him out, don't 
jump down his throat for asking. Helping each other out whether you be a 
professional or a hobbyist, etc is what open source is all about.

I totally agree with you on standards compliant players, server, etc but 
try to be a little nicer.


On 3/25/2010 9:52 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> 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.