A word of warning:  To all those who dabble in the world of streaming media, I recently installed VLC Media Player on to my desktop and discovered that it became the default player for ALL MEDIA content in Fire Fox and destroyed my gorgeous embedded Windows Media video content’s functionality…  We are totally dependent on the reliability of players and plug ins in this game and when Windows Media Player embed tags stopped working completely, I discovered that the only fix was… Uninstall the VLC Media Player…

VLC is great, but if you work in multiple formats/players/embed tags, BEWARE…  It’s a MIME type hog in FF…  Anyone have a better fix for this yet other than this for the VLC Media player ?  Of course, if you use OBJECTY in your tags, maybe you can skip all that pain, but if you can’t change the tags… You know what to do!

Happy Streaming, Suckers!

Hello gorgeous!  Just when I was ready to give up on my industry and technology partners, faith is restored… allegedly.

We shall see how the follow-through plays out in the real world, but it appears that our friends at Tandberg not only have no fear of the Nico implementing their TCS (Tandberg Content Server) and telepresence systems into our Broadcast facilities, but they SAY they will allow me to demo AND execute a “shoot out” against the INLET Spinnaker from our HD Digital Hub and “Digital Meet Me Point” Azzurro.  I did, in fact, invite “others” to participate, but companies such as Digital Rapids and Kulabyte were not interested nor would either permit a demo longer than a week, which is ridiculous. read this entry »