According to Albert Cahalan, on 13 May 2004 11:31:39 -0400, >On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:30, Rob Latham wrote: >> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:22:39PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > >> > forget about streaming video and flash >> >> mplayer and mplayer-plugin make streaming video a little less painful, >> but yeah, it's about 6 months before support for the latest codecs >> shows up (pretty fast turnaround, if you ask me :> ) > >So you can just point your web browser at a popular >news site and watch the video clips? > >http://www.cnn.com/ >http://www.msnbc.com/ >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/default.stm > >Skip-free full-screen video from an encrypted DVD too? > >I'd especially love a solution that was solid enough >that I didn't have to worry about software upgrades >breaking it. >
Also, the realplayer 8 is distributed for most ppc linux architecture. It does not work as a plugin, but if you look at the web page source in firefox, you can fetch the media address and feed it to the player. -- Cedric "[Of course] I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail
