on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:19:18PM +0000, Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Various sites offer you the option to play sound over the net but all > require you to have some software to enable this. I followed some links > for this in Linux Debian but they were all for Woody, which I don't want > to upgrade to yet. > > Is there anything available for Potato?
This is a question which requires a case-by-case answer.
- Primitive file formats (e.g.: *.au, *.wav), can be handled through
the 'play' command (sox package).
- *.ra and *.ram are played by the proprietary RealPlayer player,
there's a Debian wrapper package but you have to download the
program yourself.
- Flash is supported with the Shockwave Flash plugin for Netscape,
Mozilla, etc. Think twice before accepting it -- there's a hell of
a lot of Flash abuse on the Net right now.
- Some movie formats play with xanim, though this is primitive.
There's an xmms plugin for handling several other formats.
- Quicktime and Windows Media Player formats don't currently play
under GNU/Linux natively, though you might check with Wine
emulation.
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