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

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

> 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.

The problems stems from the fact that these contents were created using a
windows machine and they tend to go the Windows Media way.  Unless there
is a on-the-fly converter, we are stuck.  Ogg Vorbis is doing for audio 
but we need another for video.

Harish

> 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