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UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming (ZDNet UK)
ZDNet UK
reports on a Linux-friendly video service that is being deployed by
the Waverley Borough Council.
"When the European Commission launched a streaming video service last year which excluded Linux users, large swathes of the open source community became deeply angry. Now, a Surrey local council has shown that open source operating systems can be included in such programmes."
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UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming (ZDNet UK) Posted Mar 2, 2007 17:58 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] Is it actually easy to play RealMedia streams on Linux? I'm at work, where I don't have any video stuff set up, so I can't really test things, but it looks to me like the European Commission site works perfectly with Linux (Gentoo, mplayerplug-in) and the Waverley Council one requires a proprietary plugin. Now, it is nice that the Waverley Council site doesn't claim not to work with Linux, but you'd think that it would actually work at least as well as the EC one.
UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming (ZDNet UK) Posted Mar 2, 2007 19:59 UTC (Fri) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] Depends on what platform you're running that Linux on. Sure, on a 32-bit x86 platform you may not have problems, but that may be because mplayer or whatever is actually using the Windows .dll libraries or codecs, or because the vendor has provided a 32-bit x86 Linux binary.
Try it on x86-64 or non-x86 and see how far you get. (Actually I keep a 32-bit version of mplayer on my otherwise 64-bit box just for this reason, although it doesn't help with Flash or other formats that don't have a codec that mplayer can use.)
UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming (ZDNet UK) Posted Mar 3, 2007 3:22 UTC (Sat) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] I haven't found a way to identify what codec it's using to play the EC site. But it's at least possible that it's using one of the native Linux codecs (which cover an increasingly large range of encodings), whereas realplayer doesn't seem to exist at all for Linux for anything other than x86.
UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming (ZDNet UK) Posted Mar 3, 2007 7:54 UTC (Sat) by csawtell (subscriber, #986) [Link] start mplayer from the comand line with the URL of the stream as the argument, and it will tell you all the details.
UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming (ZDNet UK) Posted Mar 5, 2007 10:47 UTC (Mon) by dwmw2 (subscriber, #2063) [Link] "...realplayer doesn't seem to exist at all for Linux for anything other than x86."RealPlayer also exists for Linux on PowerPC. I haven't tried mplayer, but xine is certainly capable of using its codec libraries.
UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming (ZDNet UK) Posted Apr 1, 2007 17:15 UTC (Sun) by kreutzm (guest, #4700) [Link] There were real codecs for alpha as well ....
UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming (ZDNet UK) Posted Mar 5, 2007 9:19 UTC (Mon) by lamikr (guest, #2289) [Link] The problem is that things like realaudio and windows codecs are moving targets without sources. If somebody manages to get the current version to work does not quarantee that the next version of the codecs would work also.
In last week the Finish national TV channel (YLE) was broadcasting live tv programs from the skiing world championships, but I could not follow them
And even if I would had the windows codec for my intel x86 machine, I could not have follow them with my Nokia 770 or iPAQ h6340 running linux because those are ARM CPU based machines and microsoft & real does not build & offer codecs for those platforms. (at least freely)
Mika
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