The xine solution is the one that I use and works very well. If you are willing to use kde instead of gnome, konqueor and the kaffeine xine frontend can integrate very well together and provide a nice replacement for the Internet Explorer / Media Player integration. However, my personal though, after working at a school where the paid top dollar for content blocking software just so that the students couldn't watch yahoo video's and the like, is that installing linux actually could have saved them even more money. Sounds to me like the linux lack of support for video may be, in many school districts, a solution, not a problem. Then just use a xine enabled linux box or windows box for the times when displaying a digital video is important in an educational way. Josh On Saturday 29 October 2005 8:41 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) > > I did compile Xine myself and I downloaded the "essentials" package from > the mplayer homepage. The essentials package contains all the required > decoders for realplayer, windows media, and such. It does mean you are > really going to the darks side because you are supposed to have a (windows) > license to use these libraries. > > As a last note, if some file you throw at Xine isn't working, open a > console, and type xine --verbose=10 filename > > Replace filename with the complete filename. Can be on your disk or can be > an url. If Xine is missing a certain library it will mention it. You can > then do a Google search to locate that library and put it in the > /usr/lib/win32 directory and restart Xine. > > > With kind regards > > > Andy > > On Saturday 29 October 2005 14:46, malcolm wrote: > > I work in a school and we are thinking about Linux > > I put some test machines out - Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu > > The view of the students was Fedora was the best ..great so far > > Then we did the KDE v Gnome thing - Gnome won ... even better > > Then I asked the question - so what do you think of Linux ? > > 'It sucks ! ' was the almost universal response ( students aged 11 to 18 > > ) Why I asked .. It never falls over, XP dies all the time ... true they > > said OO is just like Office to use and doesn't munge up documents .. also > > true they said > > It will save the school £20000 per year, so why does it suck > > > > Because we can't watch Yahoo music videos and that was it - Ok I did > > point out that > > they weren't suppose to be watching them at all really but that doesn't > > cut much ice with > > teenagers. So the problem is this - I am never going to get this off the > > ground if I don't have > > the support of the kids. Windows Media is my Linux killer - Codeweavers > > are OK but > > only support WMP 6.4 - I've never got gxine to work properly and the > > Linux version of Real Player > > won't do the 'universal player' trick that the Windows one does. > > > > Even the most angst ridden teenager admitted that 99% of Linux was > > better than the Windows > > equivalent but not one of them wanted to use it simply because of the > > lack of Windows Media plugins > > > > Help .... please ! > > > > M
