Hello! I would like to ask if anyone is aware of inquiry/study/survey available in the web of the use of rivalling main video architectures? By "main video architectures", I mean mainly Windows Media, QuickTime Flash and Real. The only one I've found is the one which can be found on Adobe's Flash website (http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer), which might be biased since the survey is appointed by the Adobe, although it seems to be telling that the survey has been conducted by an external party. If you can hint me where I could be able to find one or more surveys like that, I'd be grateful. Thanks.
Those aren't main architectures, not by a long shot. They are second fiddle if that. You seem to be interested in streaming formats. I think if you hang around here and videohelp.com for a bit, you'll learn a lot. I also think the glossary here will tell you a lot of what you need to know. Well, here's the dealio: RealMedia/Realnetworks sucks for anything. Horrendous quality, proprietary codecs, etc. make it an obvious elimination. Quicktime, at least the modern, MPEG-4 based iterations, produces up to excellent quality and the software is well-distributed. As it's MPEG-4 based, there is no need to deal with proprietary codecs as is the case with WMV or RM. As a streaming format, WMV (non-HD) seems from my experience to produce terrible quality, not much better than realmedia. An increasing number of users are also learning - the hard way - that security problems with Windows and Windows Media Player demand it be restricted from internet access, so you will likely run into lots of problems with WMV-based streaming. Plus, IIRC, the EU's anti-trust laws required Microsoft to remove WMP from certain Windows distributions, so WMV is pretty much out. http://www.betanews.com/article/EU_Remove_Media_Player_from_Windows/1103733989 http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/22/microsoft-loses-eu-case/
You are right. And thanks for the info. Unfortunately, I'm not interested in individual user opinions, as I should have maybe expressed more clearly, but penetration statistics as I need them as source material for my thesis. Besides the Adobe survey, the best sources I've found so far are Rich Media eMarketer White Paper statistics by Creative Digital Group and "Apple's iTunes Player Climbs Streaming Media Charts" article by by Website Optimization LLC. If anyone is aware of more valid sources/links, please let me know! Thanks.
I know people in market research. Wouldn't be free though and I am not sure if there data even includes such statistics. Also the data would be for Australia only. I could put a poll up on my site (old one about CPU's has been up forever (around 4,000 votes)) or you could put a poll up here (also videohelp, doom9, etc.) but in each case you would be getting somewhat skewed results I would imagine due to only certain types of people visiting said sites. Still better than nothing and better than stuff paid for by Adobe or Apple.
Thanks for reply. Sure, more information (though maybe skewed) is better than a little information. How do you make a poll here in AfterDawn? Or do you plainly mean making a poll by yourself or by a generator and linking it here?
