WereKitten on 15 July 2009
| JaggedSac said: ^^I think Flash already has an alternative to smooth streaming. Not sure how it compares to Silverlight's though. Also, the media being streamed through Silverlight Smooth Streaming must be hosted on an IIS 7.0 server. It is actually IIS that is handling the chunking of the content. Silverlight just knows how to handle it. |
That's quite natural, being a MS tech. An equivalent server-side tech would have to be integrated into Apache or other http servers or come as a standard reusable module, that comes without saying.
Basically the tipping point of adoption of alternative techs will be with hugely popular services such as YouTube, same as HTML 5 video.
