OT: Launch.com music videos under Mozilla and Linux

[Michael A. Peters]

On 11/15/2004 04:09:44 AM, Gerald Thompson wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I kind of like watching music videos on the web and was thinking that  
> we seriously need to start putting some market pressure on Yahoo to  
> make Launch.com work on Mozilla and Firefox under Windows, and even  
> pressure them to switch to real media format so that the videos will  
> work on Linux.  (They will never switch to an open source media  
> format so forget that right now, Real Player 10 works fine on Linux  
> so if they switch to Real Media they will be able to hit the Windows  
> audience, Mac audience, and Linux audience all at the same time.)
>

There are several mac users, and several linux users, who do not want  
Real on their machines. Myself included. I don't even have it on my  
Windows machine, where it arguably is a good player.

Don't dismiss open source as possibly providing a viable option.

If you look at gstreamer.freedesktop.org - there's some pretty exciting  
stuff going on right now with respect to open source media technology.

Not just players, but streaming server technology.