Re: Linux killer!

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 10/30/05

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    On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:03:48PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
    > On Sat October 29 2005 9:41 am, Andy Pieters wrote:
    > > Hi
    > >
    > > I don't know about 'live" but I can watch to streaming video news,
    > > streaming audio radio, wmv files, asx, asf and the likes, mpeg, mp3,
    > > basically everything I throw at it it can handle (xine), with the exception
    > > being windows encrypted media files. (DRM)
    > >
    >
    > Hello Andy: You got me to revisit this. I'd never personally tested my
    > installation on a live stream. I'd only heard that it wouldn't work (I read
    > it on an internet list, it must have been true ;-) The news feeds I know of,
    > like CNN, are not live feeds, but little prepared spots - you can tell
    > because they always play from the beginning to the end. But I went to
    > vivalavoce.com which is a live streaming radio station and selected broadband
    > WM, and it played - I'll have to find some live streaming WM video streams
    > now, but, this is pretty hopeful.
    > My recipe was pretty simple. I installed mplayer, mplayerplug-in, mplayer-gui,
    > some skins, and the all-codecs package from the mplayer site. As I recall, I
    > used Synaptic and the atrpms repo to install the software, and I downloaded
    > the codecs directly from mplayer's site and unpacked them in /usr/lib/win32 -
    What is interesting is that I can't see any of the CNN videos unless I
    put the codecs in /usr/local/lib/win32

    > that's all there was to it. I've done this on multiple FC4 boxes and on half
    > a dozen MEPIS Linux boxes now. MEPIS is a Debian derivative, and the Debian
    > repos have those packages, as well.
    > So, to the original poster, it looks like you get pretty full WM play
    > functionality with a very simple install - once you've done it once, it
    > shouldn't take you more than a few minutes per machine.
    >
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    > Claude Jones
    > Bluemont, VA, USA
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