[streaming] Re: VOD implementation suggestions

[Dermot McGahon]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:01:00 +0200, Derk-Jan Hartman  
<hartman at videolan.org> wrote:

> Marc Manthey wrote:
>> hello mr. derek jan hartman
>>  whatever gives you the  rights to say something  like  this  in public  
>> to a person
>>  that initiated a great idea ?
>> kindest regards
>>  marc
>
> Well because those servers are pieces of shit. And i say that as an  
> enduser of the thing for over 3,5 years, and as someone who has been  
> studying the internals and software of this machine for almost half a  
> year now. The implementations of their protocols are clearly very much  
> outdated requiring anyone who wants to use something else then the  
> Kasenna MediaBase Player jump trough hoops and climb mountains to use  
> the servers.

Don't talk to me about that thing :)

I've asked Kasenna a couple of times why they don't have a linux
player. They would have plenty of options. It would be straightforward
for them to do something similar to what VIA have done with xine/vexp.

But they just stare at you blankly. They use linux as their operating
system on the MediaBase servers .. and yet, mention linux players and
they stare at you blankly. Weird and unfathomable.


> And I'm positive Dermot thinks quite alike, because he has been  
> struggling with them for over half a year aswell :)

I do. The servers are sub-optimal :)


> P.S. Could you please configure your mailclient to use quoting? It's  
> making it hard to follow which person wrote what in your emails...

And if you could Marc, would you quote a little more of the context when
you are replying. This correspondance just happened yesterday and reading
a couple of your posts this morning, I wasn't sure which points you were
referring to. Top posting and lack of capitals don't bother me, but might
others.



Dermot.
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