Re: Streaming mutimedia doesn't.

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

Hi, Gary.

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 21:14, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Paul!
> 
> 
> > I just don't seem to be able to get streaming multimedia to work right.
> 
> No problems for me, I use realplayer and mplayer with Mozilla.

Cool. That's a start - it means that it is _possible_ to make them work,
so it's worth me trying...

> 
> > Not just real player either - java and flash never seem to work quite
> > right, either.
> 
> They work fine for me, but I usually turn them off to be spared the
> crap.
> 
Good point. :) 
It's only occasionally that they are actually useful - like on some
tech-support sites.


> > works (God, I _hate_ saying that about MS products!!!)·
> 
> Really?  My windows hosts crash much more often than my Linux hosts.
> 

Oh yeah, _windows_ crashes all the time and generally sucks. It's just
Internet Explorer that sometimes works. I guess that a lot of web pages
are written and tested only for IE.

> Mozilla seems much more tolerant to me of bad javascript and bad html
> than IE 6.

I'm not using IE6 as it's apparently not as stable as IE5. Which is
about right for anything new that MS releases...

> 
> Hmm, well, I think you must be missing something.
> 
> BTW, I use Slackware, but install most of these things from the
> sourceforge source rather than the munged distro versions.
> 
Now _that_ is a good point. I haven't tried rebuilding most of the stuff
that fails (I did try that a couple of years ago, but a lot of it didn't
compile back then and I couldn't be bothered to spend hours figuring out
why.)

I'm just about to have a go with Gnome 2, so it might be a good time to
try to recompile everything...

Thanks.

P.


-- 
Paul Furness

Systems Manager

2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2.

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