Caltrops - Rants





	[quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"]Quicktime is Apple's multimedia delivery system, if it sucks, unfortunately, it's all Apple's fault, Microsoft had nothing to do with it. And Apple isn't the only one who fucks up badly in the content delivery market. I've said it in my own blog as far back as 2007, in the month of <a href="http://www.paul-robinson.us/index.php/2007/10/29/the_new_york_times_all_the_video_that_do">October</a>, explaining how <i>The New York Times</i> does a piss-poor job on delivering video to its web pages, and in <a href="http://www.paul-robinson.us/index.php/2007/12/01/another_one_bites_the_dust_or_rather_the">December</a> I point out how the G4 cable channel also screwed up trying to send web video, and that these people are stupid, because delivering video, including streaming video, is not rocket science or brain surgery, YouTube does it perfectly and if they can't figure out how to do it right, dump the problem - and the video - on YouTube, don't do a half-assed, piss-poor shitty performance job, because the supposed extra revenue by showing video from your site isn't going be there because you won't hold people long enough to see your ads when your video is so crappily delivered it's unwatchable. Now, YouTube's video delivery to web pages is flawless, but unfortunately they use Flash video and the delivery method is a video player implemented using Adobe Flash, which Apple, Inc. hates with a passion. When you want something really bad, it's sometimes said you have a hard-on for it. Well, what Apple has is the inverse of a hard-on, they have a huge, palpable hatred of Adobe Flash or anything implemented using it. I'm not sure why. But the fact remains that it ain't hard to do good implementation of video delivery, YouTube does it well in a proprietary format, and VLC does it well, as an open-source desktop (non-web) application. Quicktime is the worst of both words, it does content delivery badly, in a proprietary form. [/quote]