Re: Linux killer!

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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. 
> 
> -- 
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
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