[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: FYI: Overview of Microsoft Windows Media 9 Serie

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live.com
Mon Sep 9 02:52:36 CEST 2002


>New streaming technologies:
>=====================
>They added support for RTSP/RTP and are going to slowly drop the mms protocol.
>They didn't specify why this move toward RTSP, but I'm guessing is to allow
>the cache appliance(HW) to use a standard protocol and avoid ms to release
>there mms protocol. Anyway, for what they said, they get better performance
>with RTSP/RTP than mms.

BTW, if anyone knows a publically accessible "rtsp://..." URL for a Windows 
Media 9 session, just let me know, and I'll see if the LIVE.COM RTSP client 
code (which is use in mplayer's optional RTSP streaming support) can be 
made to stream it.

         Ross.




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