[K12OSN] howto for streaming content -- from NPR
Rita Gibson
rgibson57 at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 16 12:13:15 UTC 2005
>
> Hello everyone. Hope your preparations for a new school year are going well!
>
> I have a new High School Science teacher that uses NPR a lot in her lesson
> plans. I have sound working on three types of terminals (new LTSP Term150's,
> GX1/GXa, and Vectra 66) in the building now, with sound working with games
> like tuxtype and on some websites (must be using flash), but I have not
> figured out how to play streaming media from websites like NPR or, for
> example, a local talk radio www.850koa.com.
> Also, I can play mp3's from a command line mp3 player, but not from a the
> gui based player in the menu (can't remember the name of that player now),
> and cannot even recall the error message at the moment, but it is something
> about a/the mixer and recreate it once I get into the building. The next
> item to figure out, was streaming content, and now I have a teacher that has
> asked me about it.
>
> Can anyone help me with getting streaming content to work, for example, the
> NPR website?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rita Gibson
> RMSELTech
>
Eric Brown wrote:
> Hello Rita,
>
> I've had to work through this before. I downloaded the streaming file to
> the computer, then opened it up in XMMS. It's not a very elegant
workaround
> at first, but the upside is that you don't have to open a browser
window and
> navigate to the website once you've downloaded the streaming file,
you just
> open the file in XMMS.
>
> I've only done this with .pls files, and I think real media files. While
> others could speak more knowledgeably on this, I'm not sure if it
would work
> with windows media streaming.
>
> Good luck.
>
I have found RealPlayer for Linux but haven't tried to download it and
see if it works on ltsp. I would not be opposed to downloading the files
and having them available in a shared file for the students to access.
It would certainly minimize usage on our DSL lines. I don't really know
how to download streaming content. Wow! I feel so old, I'm
streaming-media challenged!
Rita Gibson
RMSELTech
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