Downloading the 11MB file took approximately 12 minutes on my broadband
connection. I was surprised at how long it took.
Display started up at about 10 minutes into the download. That was a
surprise too since I expected it to start sooner. However, I didn't
record the play time and if the play time was in the range of a minute
or so it makes sense that it would outrun the available buffer if it
started much sooner.
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<begin really OT old war story>
Although I am a Windoze user I do have QuickTime installed. When I
worked for IBM OS/2 Development I had a liaison relationship with Apple
with respect to multimedia and data standards. Apple proposed a deal to
me that would give IBM free use of QuickTime for OS/2. Their hope was
to solidify QuickTime as the standard. I was in strong favor of this
deal but my boss wouldn't bite. At the time the OS/2 player was a bit
more sophisticated than QuickTime. It was, but not enough to give OS/2
any kind of competitive advantage. In my opinion the data standard was
far more important than the implementation code.
In those days Windoze could not reliably synchronize a video and data
stream but OS/2 and QuickTime had that down cold. Today, machines are
blazingly fast and everybody knows how to sync the data. But I don't
have OS/2 installed anymore and so I have to leave a little room for
QuickTime.
<end really OT old war story>
Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
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