Streaming WMV in htaccess Protected Directories

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Originally Posted by Cleo

All I know is when I took over running Angel's site for her all the movies were in wmv format and her board was full of members who were having trouble viewing her movies and after switching over to mpg, which are not my personal favorite, the posts about movie problems dropped down to almost nothing.

I'm not saying that did not happen, without knowing all the specifics it's hard to say exactly what the problem was. It could have been other issues of the members script, htaccess issues, server configuration issues, etc etc

Originally Posted by Cleo

Then there are products like the iPhone coming to market in a few months that has a full version of Safari and built-in WiFi but will not have the plugin to play wmv files but since we use mpg files you will be able to view Angel's movies since mpg files do not require any plugins to view. I have no idea if anyone is going to watch tranny porn on their iPhone or any other phone product but using an open standard like mpg instead of a something from Microsoft means we have one less thing to worry about.

sometimes having multiple formats is the only answer to make everyone happy, and tap every revenue stream, but like i said in my first post: ugh..... it's a lot of work having multiple formats plus multiple speeds plus full length and parts.........