“For Infonet TV, you don’t need to do anything. You set up your channel, purchase this web add-on and you tell it where to send the web content. It could be to your ISP or off your machine, because you get an Apache server when you purchase Infonet TV. Your machine could be the web server.”

Nathan: How do you take care of compression?

Tony: “That’s all done in software. And it’s pretty much done when you launch the show. For the first few minutes, all the show content is being converted to the Windows Media format and then that’s all sent to the folder, IP address or wherever you happen to be storing the content.”

Nathan: Now what about QuickTime? I haven’t heard you mention that.

Tony: “At the moment, we don’t do anything for hardware acceleration of QuickTime, though you can export QuickTime from Premiere.

Nathan: Was there any particular reason for that?

Tony: “No. In development, we chose to work with Real and Windows Media and to deal with that for now.”

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