Capability
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Rating
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Browser compatibility and percent of browsers with Plug-in
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Excellent.
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Interactive sound design capabilities
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Fair. Technology is a compression format and widely used playback
standard, not a multimedia authoring environment.
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Software cost for encoding and streaming
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Free to $1,000+.
Free to encode QuickTime and place downloadable files on web server.
Large-scale managed streaming requires Mac OS X Server, which starts
at over $1,000.
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Level of documentation and support
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Fair.
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Audio encoding and content generation
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Easy.
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Audio authoring and delivery
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Easy.
No programming expertise is required to set up Mac OS X Server.
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Audio fidelity and compression
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Excellent.
Q Design Music encoding technology.
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Low-bandwidth performance
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Excellent.
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Server performance and quality of software tools for large-scale
streaming
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Good -- Mac OS X Server.
QuickTime support large-scale broadcasting. Number of streams depends
on hardware configuration and bandwidth capacity.
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