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Originally Posted by Bratag
Wow - beats the pants of coreplayer. Great app - looking forwards to the version where number returned can be configured.
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Props to milesmowbray... nice app ;-)
For Bratag.... 'Beats' is a stong word with no facts to back it up....
CorePlayer 'lessens' the overhead by removing the FLV layer from the picture.. its as simple as that (if this is what your referring too).
PPL need to understand that like Real Audio/Video.... FLV and the Flash Container is a 'locked' ecosystem by Adobe and imho a poor design for the long run (its also not a very effecient container... why? For example Double stacking a fast MPEG-4 file into a slow FLV container is like trying put a 4" pipe in a 2" hole). We would rather ppl stick to using MPEG-4 or our Matroska Container both of which are open, fast and well documented containers.
Back to Bratag though... if you can benchmark and show that I am wrong.....
One last thing.... Current remaining YouTube CorePlayer connectivity issues will go away over the next couple of releases as we do two things....
- Automate the YouTube Quality Control 'seeking'... this will help incase one setting appears to hang (spinning buffering icon).
- Add Progressive Downloading... this way if CP encouters a bad connectivity problem (but can still access the stream) it will then just buffer the content and then begin playback.