From: Daniel Jorissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: auto installation of real player
To all,
I believe there are two issues that prevent our
industry from being where it could be.
The first is the auto-installation of software
required to play streaming media, or somehow ensuring
the pre-existing presence of it on the user's system.
The holy grail of the streaming media industry is to
have these things happen automatically when a
mulitmedia (RealMedia etc.. ) link in clicked by a
user:
1. detect if a user's system has audio that is
actually working at that moment
2. detect if the correct version of a player
(realplayer) is correctly installed to play the
requested content
(I'm doing this now, thanks to the realforum)
3. download and correctly install the most current
version of the player without having to reboot
I'm talking a star trek level of simplicity here ...
and until we make it so they can't do it wrong, we
will not penetrate the largest segment of our
potential market.
The second issue is bandwidth requirement to the home.
As more people get access to cable modems and dsl
service, this will improve. But even if these
services are available to everyone with the maximum
bandwidths possible by these technologies, full-screen
real-time video is just not yet possible.
At maximum cable modem and dsl speeds, we can
realistically expect uninterrupted very good quality
audio (cd-quality), or uninterrupted,
television-quality video at about 200-300 pixels wide
(4:3 aspect ratio)
(please correct me if I'm wrong here ....)
The bottom line is, when someone sees images moving on
a computer, or hears something coming from the
computer, the frame of reference that person has is
the television.
Until the moving pictures and sound on a computer are
the quality of television, we will remain just a
curiosity to most people.
-daniel jorissen
systems engineer
mindwise media
-- RealForum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: auto installation of real player
>
> Hi Bernadette,
> Great question!! I have problems with
> intelligent people not viewing my
> video because they do not know how to load the G2 or
> most think it loads
> automatically on download. It would be wonderful if
> this issue could be
> resolved. I cannot count the business people I run
> into who will not use
> G2 video because of their own inadequacies. They
> rationalize that if they
> can't download it, others will not download it. I
> sure hope Realnetworks
> can do something to get the G2 to load
> automatically.
> Sincerely,
> Camille Daniels
> www.streamlinevid.com
