On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:27 -0400, Jay Lee wrote: > MJang wrote: > > Folks, > > > > There's a link to an upcoming Webcast from redhat.com, I presume to > > announce the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. (scheduled for noon > > Eastern time) > > > > When I try to access the Webcast in my Ubuntu Desktop (yeah, I know), I > > get the following message: > > > > "The page at http://www.thomson-webcast.net says: > > > > Could not find an appropriate hxplay or realplay in the system path to > > use as an embedded player" > > > > When I click through (OK) several times, I see that the Red Hat webcast > > is limited to RealVideo and WindowsMediaVideo at a couple of different > > speeds. > > > > I'm thinking this should work with one of the installed Linux multimedia > > players on my Linux desktop, but I wonder about the message Red Hat is > > sending where its Webcast for this big release appears to be limited to > > Microsoft multimedia players. > > > My CentOS4 Desktop picked it up just fine with the Open Source Helix > player installed.... And let's be honest here. How many RedHat admins > run Windows as their desktop OS? Quite a few. They'll be glad to see > they're ready to go and don't need to download Realplayer. I believe RH > has their bases covered here.... > > You may wish to see if Ubuntu has a package for Helix (which I'd be > willing to bet it does).
It does, I already had it installed, just had to select one of the RealPlayer options. Also MPlayer seems to pick up the Windows Media Player options just fine, thank you, You're right, we in the Linux world have to be "bilingual," so to speak. But I think it's still a commentary that Red Hat doesn't have an explicitly Linux media option listed for its Webcast. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list rhelv5-beta-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
