Monday, October 1st 2007
Adobe Launches Media Player
With the three main firms currently competing in the media playback industry being Microsoft, Apple and Real, Adobe has decided to launch its very own media player in an attempt to gain a foothold. Adobe Media Player (AMP for short), which is backed by several companies including CBS, PBS and Yahoo (as well as a few other online companies), is designed to work with files based on the same .FLV format used by YouTube and several other video sharing sites, with Adobe saying:
Source:
TG Daily
Adobe is driving the next generation of internet video delivery with the Adobe Media Player, the Flash Media Server, content protection technologies, and a broad and powerful ecosystem of partners providing key solutions from content creation through delivery and monetization. AMP brings the best of both the broadcast television and web video worlds to your desktop-providing high-quality content both online and offline, with a wide range of business model possibilities.AMP is still only a BETA at the moment, with a final release scheduled for March 2008, but if you want to take a look at it you can download it for free from here.
16 Comments on Adobe Launches Media Player
EDIT: I guess their market is their music library that people can purchase?
PBS AND Yahoo?! Well that's it! I'm removing all my other media players and installing AMP. (Yeah right!)
Seriously, CBS, PBS and Yahoo are "online companies". What are offline companies?
[Sorry, too easy.]
Edit:Sorry, my mistake. Mis-worded it, I'll fix that too. :o
”http//labs.adobe.com/technologies/mediaplayer/”
It should say:
labs.adobe.com/technologies/mediaplayer/
Thats the issue with the downloads.
If they made "AMP" play MP3, WMA, WMV, FLV, MOV, MPG, AVI, RM, etc I'd be more interested in it.
Also some steap requirements on it too:
2.0 GHz Pentium-class processor or better
512MB of RAM
32MB video RAM
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, XP Service Pack 2; Vista
Mac version req?
Free version but with adds?I'm tired of having 3 players because everyone wants to do their own thing.
Fixed now though, thanks for bringing it too my attention.
Yay, just what we all need.
And how is Adobe software bloated guys?
Personally I like WMP with the corporate minimalist skin and the K-Lite pack installed, as this handles pretty much anything I use. And of course VLC :)