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To: Patrice Gigahurtz who wrote (2019)	1/16/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: John Dowdell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2675

"Also their streaming FLASH has ties (I think ?) with RealVideo 5.0 ? I think at 56kbs it yields (or close to it) VHS full screen quality and near CD audio." The Flash playback engine is built into the RealMedia 5.0 Player. Flash uses vector-based graphics (curves) rather than pixel-based graphics, and so the display size can be arbitrarily resized... can do fullscreen display, although you'd just have a larger yet still-clean display, rather than any additional detail. VHS signals usually use photographic-style compression (JPEG or MPEG or such) and are of fixed resolution... different beastie than curve-based graphics. Enlarging this will fuzz the image. (RealMedia does include parallel video codecs, but this is distinct from the Flash engine.) The RealMedia 5.0 Player is useful for long animations with synched audio. The regular Flash engine, whether as Netscape plugin or ActiveX Control or Java player, is better suited to interactive pieces where the user can pause or branch at their discretion. See the gallery at real.com for some examples of longform animation delivered through the RealMedia 5.0 Player. (btw, it's no use asking me about projections or sales or day-to-day trading details or any of that stuff... I don't know it. Strictly propeller-head, that's me. 8) Regards, John Dowdell Macromedia Tech Support