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Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value (fortune.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's an interesting claim.

I don't think I've ever seen a platform struggle more with video than Twitter. Everything looks like it's using RealPlayer. It's the only platform where the Japanese wouldn't have to censor their porn before uploading.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Oh my God. I forgot about real player. Plus DivX.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

And QuickTime. You can still get both of these. I can only imagine they're visited by people that've just come out of a 20 year coma and need something to play their .avi files on...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

RealPlayer was, and still to this day is, a for-profit product. Somehow. RealNetworks LLC still exists, they apparently now provide "artificial intelligence and computer vision based products" though they still provide subscription-based online entertainment services...presumably for people who set up automatic bill pay then forgot about it for 15 years.

Also, do you mean DivX, the vaguely obscure MPEG-4-like video codec that some people even used for reasons beyond my understanding, or DIVX, the completely unrelated DVD rental system operated by Circuit City which involved encrypted DVDs with unique barcodes and a special DVD player with a modem in it that would phone home, check if the rental is still valid, and if so get the key needed to play the disc...which is now defunct and all the discs are useless. Because both of those pretty much sucked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The codec was quite popular for a decent little stretch there... Far more so and for far longer than the circuit city product.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

presumably for people who set up automatic bill pay then forgot about it for 15 years.

SHIT!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Real Player was pr….***buffering***

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Reddit video...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I doubt their server infrastructure will hold after all the shenanigans Elmo pulled with it.

Video streaming is a lot more taxing than text.