[K12OSN] Re: Software to do X
Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
Mon Nov 22 13:45:04 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 05:56, Frank Samuelson wrote:
> > 5) Streaming Media. Real media, quicktime, wmv, mpg, whatever the
> > format -- is this possible at all? (Especially via a browser) How does
> > sound work? Does it?
>
> mplayer and mplayerplug-in (to make it work in your browser).
> These are not included in most distn's, but can
> be grabbed as rpms for any distn. Mplayer plays almost
> _everything_. I've never seen a media player on any platform
> out of the box come close to what mplayer can do.
Videolan client (vlc) is also very good, works cross-platform and is
capable of acting as a streaming multicast server. I think with
a little work getting it to run as a local app on the clients you
would be able to stream videos to a whole classroom or building
using little bandwidth or server resources and mac/windows clients
could watch too. It (and mplayer, xine, etc.) can be found at
http://rpm.livna.org/. Because of all the libraries you have to
keep in sync, you really want to let yum or apt-get install these
packages.
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Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
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