Streaming Media Players

One of the decisions you ll make as a streaming media producer is platform, that is, whichone or more of the several streaming media technologies you ll favor for your project. You ll haveto decide whether to use systems designed by RealNetworks, Microsoft, Apple Computer, Macromedia,an open standard such as MPEG, or some combination. Your decision will be driven in part by theinstalled base of players on the computers of your expected audience.

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