From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Furness Subject: Re: Streaming mutimedia doesn't. Date: 05 Sep 2002 09:12:15 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1031213535.8926.31.camel@Zebra> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "Gary E. Miller" Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hi, Gary. On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 21:14, Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo Paul! >=20 >=20 > > I just don't seem to be able to get streaming multimedia to work ri= ght. >=20 > 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... >=20 > > Not just real player either - java and flash never seem to work qui= te > > right, either. >=20 > They work fine for me, but I usually turn them off to be spared the > crap. >=20 Good point. :)=20 It's only occasionally that they are actually useful - like on some tech-support sites. > > works (God, I _hate_ saying that about MS products!!!)=B7 >=20 > Really? My windows hosts crash much more often than my Linux hosts. >=20 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... >=20 > Hmm, well, I think you must be missing something. >=20 > BTW, I use Slackware, but install most of these things from the > sourceforge source rather than the munged distro versions. >=20 Now _that_ is a good point. I haven't tried rebuilding most of the stuf= f 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 ou= t 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. --=20 Paul Furness Systems Manager 2+2=3D5 for extremely large values of 2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html