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>Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:57:53 -0800 (PST)
>From: Bob Majors <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum   
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>Subject: Re: #8441 Streaming Solutions
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My experience with delivering QuickTime streaming audio and video (9 
servers, been doing this for the better part of a decade) to thousands of 
students using Windows and OS X, a variety of browsers, access from 
dial-up through DSL/cable modem and higher, has been remarkably 
successful, so I echo Otmar's post.  We've developed a FAQ over the years, 
and that helps students out a great deal, and I can't recall any instance 
that couldn't be solved, and the vast majority of the time it was 
something already in the FAQ.  We ran Real service a long time ago; the 
server service was unreliable (and this was echoed by other associates), 
and we had to paid a fee to run it.  To be fair, that was a long time ago, 
and I can't comment on the current state of affairs.

Be sure you have server-class hardware (xserves work very well).

Bob Majors
Language Learning Center
University of Washington


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