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

[Jeff Knox <jknox@fliphead.com>]

Must it be Windows Media format? Why not a better format? You can stream
mpeg4 (OpenDivx , Divx, whatever) on linux. Their are a variety of
different formats that you can use to stream off of from linux, that you
could view in both windows and linux.

Jeff Knox
LITC

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 01:26, Harish Pillay wrote:
> 
> > 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