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
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