Media players compatible with Linux?

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Nov 22 21:11:34 UTC 2004


Gregory Gulik wrote:
> 
> I know this is slightly off topic but I've been wanting a media player 
> box hooked to my stereo so I can just stream MP3/OGG files off my PC and 
> play them through my stereo as easily as a CD player.
> 
> Based on a recommendation of a friend, who is a techie but not a Linux 
> user, I bought a D-Link DSM-320.  He told me it uses standard HTTP from 
> port 8080 to stream.   Among many other problems with the box, the 
> biggest is that there is another protocol layer on top of HTTP that's 
> Microsoft proprietary.  I found a free server from a site in Germany 
> that claimed to support this unit under Linux but it never worked.  Even 
> with XP I had a lot of problems.
> 
> Is there another competing device that uses standard protocols that can 
> be made to work with Linux (FC3) specifically relatively easily?
> 
> 
I would get you friend over to show you how to use it.  Teach him a 
thing or two about Linux. :)


I found this.
   http://www.digital5.com/technology/server.asp

This media server uses
   Intel Networked Media Product Requirements (INMPR)

 From Intel, there are tools for Linux.
   http://www.intel.com/update/contents/it02041.htm

Search further.

There is always VideoLAN
   http://www.videolan.org/
Who knows, maybe there will be a plugin for VideoLan.
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