Actually, the use of Windows Media Player is quite rare for the events I
am talking about, Real is probably used in 90% of them, I only mentioned
the other one because it does appear from time to time. Note that Real
Player is available for multiple platforms for free, and so is Windows
Media Player, I have one for the Mac for example.
Ole
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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<begin naive question>
Apart from the "eating our own dogfood" bit ...
Most other Internet events I attend, or follow remotely, use Real
audio/video, or sometimes Windows Media Player.
Can anyone tell me if there are any TECHNICAL reasons why we can't
do this for the IETF meetings?
Does Windows Media Player run on a high-enough percentage of IETFers
machines? The incidence of Windows here is considerably lower than in
the population as a whole. Note that this is a technical reason: it
doesn't support our user base.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb