Re: Realaudio

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@CAM.ORG>]

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Peter W wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:01:38 -0700 (MST), Steve Holmes wrote:
> 
> OK, hold on now.
> 
> Depending on how tightly they've coupled the interface code to the networking, 
> sound, etc, this could be a major pain for Progressive to pull off. Given that 

Just think that they are supporting multiple interfaces such as x window,
MS Windows 3.x 16 and 32 bits (not 16 anymore but they did), Macintosh,
etc.  It's probably lot modularized and easy to fake using some getchar()
on the stdin.

> they're competing with software to be bundled with Navigator and IE Real Soon 
> Now, they probably have very limited resources to pull this off. Top that with 
> the fact they're trying hard to get their Real Video players finished up, and 
> you must realize chances are slim.

You're right on this.  I agree.

> In any case, politeness is the best course of action.

Absolutely!!  If they do something about it, it should be considered as a
nice service for blind UNIX users but nobody can force them to do so,
especially when you can access RA player under Windows and JFW (or any
screen access software).

The point is: The more we are to tell them **politely** how much we would
appreciate a command line version of RA player, the more chances they will
realise there's a demand for it and they'll consider, at least' reply to
our comments.

> Progressive Networks has a comments page at
>   http://www.real.com/support/comments.html
> and other contact info is:
>   (206) 674-2700
>   Progressive Networks, Inc.
>   1111 3rd Ave, Suite 2900
>   Seattle, WA 98101
>   USA
> 
> I'd suggest that everyone be sure to thank them for porting to UNIX at all.

Of course!

> 
> -Peter
> 

nico@cam.org
Nicolas Pitre
ing. stag.


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