Re: [school-discuss] Needs, Problems, and Opportunities?

[Harish Pillay <harish@lugs.org.sg>]

> Will you be streaming? Or just watching streams? If you are just
> watching windows media, you can use mplayer which can be found at
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/. I have had mplayer on my machine for
> a while, but just realized I can watch Windows Media stuff with it.

Thanks.  I am looking at streaming and not the playing part.  I am 
being increasingly asked to support systems that do the actual streaming
and inevitably these are windows media stuff.  Atleast Real has a
server on Linux.

Harish
 
> Jeff Knox
> LITC
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 01:10, Harish Pillay wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Bill wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thursday 17 January 2002 02:40, you wrote:
> > > > Hi.  I will kick off with one issue that I have been having to face
> > > > increasingly.
> > > >
> > > > We have to have a way to handle the Microsoft streaming media
> > > > format. As we move into web services, streaming would become an
> > > > issue and if this format is not available in non-MS OSes, then we
> > > > have a problem.
> > > >
> > > > Harish
> > > 
> > > WHat streaming media format are you referring to? Shockwave? You lost 
> > > me.
> > > BIll
> > 
> > My apologies for not being clear.  The windows media format that does
> > the video and audio streaming.  Flash is not a problem per se.
> > 
> > Harish