| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 19 Sep 2000 at 23:05:48 |
| Subject: | Re: Anyone hear about ASX ? |
Hello Neil
On 19-Sep-00, you wrote:
> Matt Sealey said,
>
>>> a website my sister is trying to access uses files ending in .ASX do
>>> display a realtime webcam. Any idea what these files are and how
>>> they're structured ?
>
>> Active Streaming.. umm.. X. It's the Microsoft Media Player format, which
>> just happens to have better compression and substantially better quality
>> audio than MP3 and nicer compression at the same bitrate than most QuickTime
>> codecs.
>
> Isn't it a bastardisation of MPEG4?
Yes, which is most of the reason why it's better. You still can't play it on
your Amiga, it struggles to play on most PCs.
>> No, you can't read them on the Amiga. Not even if you tried ;)
>
> Or on anything else but Windows.
I'm sure they'll make a thingy for MacOS X soon, it seems stupid to have your
best browser (arguably THE best browser) be the flagship on the OS, yet have
it unable to use all of your technology..
Microsoft do seem to be shunning Windows ATM. It seems their goal has
changed from Windows on every desktop to having to run at-least-one-inhouse-Microsoft-app on every system ;)
> Don't you just love standards, especially the proprietary ones :<)
It's hardly a proprietary standard, is MPEG4. It's just the way Microsoft
decided to package it ;)
Thanks
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