Re: [newbie] Streaming Media for Linux -- Quicktime?
I have used XMMS to get streaming Audio Jeanette - Original Message - From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 7:37 PM Subject: [newbie] Streaming Media for Linux -- Quicktime? Dear friends: Unless I am mistaken, 1) So far the only real streaming audio/video player we have on Linux is RealPlayer. That of, of course, is the biggie, and we are very lucky to have it and to have the RealPlayer G2 (though still Alpha). 2) Aktion is great and with the "plugger" plug-in for Netscape you can play Quicktime directly in Netscape (but NOT streamed). Most of the QuickTime files it plays are QT version 2.1 or possibly version 3. However, Aktion cannot play the latest Quicktime 4 nor, most importantly, Quicktime4's streaming media, which is now the third major streaming media on the Net (after RealPlayer, Windows Media Player). 3) There is, as Axalon says, no Linux player that can currently play Windows Media Player (.asf) files, either in playback or streaming. Personal conclusion: Linux is about to get the Mozilla AND Netscape 5.0 browsers. That's great news. It will also soon have a much more powerful KDE 2.0 web browser called Konqueror. It will even have, for what it's worth, the Opera browser for Linux. But, currently, out of the three major media streaming clients, it has access to only one. What I am curious about is the following: Quicktime uses an open standards protocol for its QT 4 streaming media player. Would it be possible for Linux to develop a streaming player that will use the same open protocols to play Quicktime 4's streaming media files? Yours, Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Streaming Media for Linux -- Quicktime?
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: I have used XMMS to get streaming Audio Jeanette Jeanette to the rescue :) as me and Benjamin were so quick to over look we can stream audio 6 ways from sunday.
[newbie] Streaming Media for Linux -- Quicktime?
Dear friends: Unless I am mistaken, 1) So far the only real streaming audio/video player we have on Linux is RealPlayer. That of, of course, is the biggie, and we are very lucky to have it and to have the RealPlayer G2 (though still Alpha). 2) Aktion is great and with the "plugger" plug-in for Netscape you can play Quicktime directly in Netscape (but NOT streamed). Most of the QuickTime files it plays are QT version 2.1 or possibly version 3. However, Aktion cannot play the latest Quicktime 4 nor, most importantly, Quicktime4's streaming media, which is now the third major streaming media on the Net (after RealPlayer, Windows Media Player). 3) There is, as Axalon says, no Linux player that can currently play Windows Media Player (.asf) files, either in playback or streaming. Personal conclusion: Linux is about to get the Mozilla AND Netscape 5.0 browsers. That's great news. It will also soon have a much more powerful KDE 2.0 web browser called Konqueror. It will even have, for what it's worth, the Opera browser for Linux. But, currently, out of the three major media streaming clients, it has access to only one. What I am curious about is the following: Quicktime uses an open standards protocol for its QT 4 streaming media player. Would it be possible for Linux to develop a streaming player that will use the same open protocols to play Quicktime 4's streaming media files? Yours, Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Streaming Media for Linux -- Quicktime?
[..] 2) Aktion is great and with the "plugger" plug-in for Netscape you can play Quicktime directly in Netscape (but NOT streamed). Most of the QuickTime files it plays are QT version 2.1 or possibly version 3. However, Aktion cannot play the latest Quicktime 4 nor, most importantly, Quicktime4's streaming media, which is now the third major streaming media on the Net (after RealPlayer, Windows Media Player). Aktion is just a frontend for xanim, xanim does have other modules we can't legaly ship. [..] -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Streaming Media for Linux -- Quicktime? -- xanim
Dear friends: You can get the full version of xanim with 7 additional video decoders (.dlls's). You can get it as an rpm from: http://www-chaos.umd.edu/~dsweet/XAnim/ Or you can get individually from: http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html The big problem with Xanim is that the Sorenson decoders that are added to QuickTime 4.0 are legally proprietory in nature and are owned by Apple, which refuses to make them available to Unix/Linux. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
