bpa;690926 Wrote: > Horses for courses. True.
> PS > > If you want to waste time you should try an all MS solution to > streaming PC audio with Windows media Encoder (or whatever MS is > calling these days) and then you might appreciate the flexibility of > the Linux originated tools such as VLC. I know quite a few non-computer people who would make a good go of getting VLC to stream audio on Windows 7. The Standard Direct Show worked fairly easily with the GUI, once I realised I had to try different HTTP ports. Straying into less common codecs would, of course, lead to much greater difficulties. I know very few people who would be able (or prepared) to fight the current release of vlc to get it to work on linux with pulseaudio. On the GUI, vlc doesn't make it clear that much else other than v4l2 is available (whatever that is), and that doesn't work on my laptop. For 'computer people' the decision is different. Even without linux knowledge, and underlying understanding of computers, familiarity with command line interfaces and so on, make it at least feasible. For the general public there's little realistic choice. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless) laptop controls the server using Chrome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49584 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
