live coverage of war on net using quicktime
hi all.....i am a longtime mac user.....i have been able to see some streaming news from the BBC using realplayer.....it is spotty due to high volumes im guessing.....anyhow.....i have always wondered....and especially now.....why is it so difficult to view streaming media with a mac? By that i mean....CNN does not make it easy....nor most of the other websites.....does anyone know where i can watch some reliable streaming of this war? prefferably with quicktime....thanks
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http://www.npr.com/
more likely that QuickTime Streaming Server is a little new for major TV networks to have deployed it yet.
Real has a long head start with cross-platform streaming tools and mindshare among many broadcasters.
and given the astronomical fees and/or government control of Internet bandwidth by many states in the Middle East, I wouldn't expect a lot of uplinked webcam footage
transcoding any of the Realplayer or WMP streams would degrade the quality so badly that it would make QT look bad... you'd have to start much higher up the footage food chain to get decent (higher quality and bandwidth) QT streams
not saying it shouldn't be out there... more sources are always desirable... and we all know that QT can do a much better job
take it up with the hosts of the non-QT video. ask apple. maybe there's a sales niche going unfilled.
The BagdadCam is worth checking out (CNN.)
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videop...ip=LiveWebCast
Been watching it for the last 10 hours or so. Not much interesting since this morning when the Ministry of Planning was hit.
Originally posted by Logan Cale
This live Baghdad feed is better, and it's free.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videop...ip=LiveWebCast
Been watching it for the last 10 hours or so. Not much interesting since this morning when the Ministry of Planning was hit.
You need real player for this... so here's a direct link so that you don't have to fill in all that registration crap.
and they said on cnn that the reporters on tanks are using some kind of video phones to take all that video. I wonder if they are using commercial ones similar to the ones that are avalible in japan.