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List:       ms-wmtalk
Subject:    Re: G2
From:       Chuck Fisher <webmaster () RIVETING ! COM>
Date:       1998-05-27 19:53:06
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hmmm  seems they just bought VIVO, which had the best streaming audio i
ever heard on modem, but I didnt deploy it because nobody wants to download
a plugin.  Everybody has the realaudio plugin already, so we used
realaudio. It sounds garbled like its underwater, and as an audio engineer,
I hate it but, it's what john q public wants. VIVO was much better.  I wish
gates would buy them all and make the NT5 OS stream, I'm sick of all the
different approaches. Realaudio sound like crap. Maybe the G2 is better,
too many changes, content providers cannot keep up, users wont keep
changing software.  Also, lots of  content folk are on MAC, and the tools
for it are weak for obvious reasons



I think the java-based solutions are promising on this level, but all Ive
heard so far are sub-standard in audio quality.

At 04:17 PM 5/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Have any of you on the list heard a demo of Real Network's G2 product?  I
>downloaded the G2 preview player and the G2 encoder and encoder some music
>at 20kb.  It blew away anything I have every heard streamed before.  The
>audio sound better than the current stuff I've heard at 56Kb.
>
>Anyone know if Microsoft will be able to license these codecs or something
>similar.  If not we might be seeing the Netshow market drying up in the very
>near future.
>
>Paul Shearer
>RBN Network Administrator
>
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