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torkellFound via slashdot: The EU Council does not stream the meetings in a Linux-friendly way, because "[they] cannot support Linux in a legal way."
So what does the FOSS crowd suggest? Theora, a codec that isn't even out of alpha. I can't speak for anyone else, but last I knew "alpha" meant "for early testing only, may be extremely buggy and fail in bad ways".
Personally, I'd recomment RealPlayer. They're the only one who've actually got the whole thing of *streaming* video right, and as a bonus it runs under all major systems.
So what does the FOSS crowd suggest? Theora, a codec that isn't even out of alpha. I can't speak for anyone else, but last I knew "alpha" meant "for early testing only, may be extremely buggy and fail in bad ways".
Personally, I'd recomment RealPlayer. They're the only one who've actually got the whole thing of *streaming* video right, and as a bonus it runs under all major systems.
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Date: 2007-01-01 06:57 pm (UTC)Problem with RealMedia is that they’re spywaretastic turds.
I’d personally recommend avi/xvid (being indeed universally runable and xvid being free), hell, even avi/h264 is available on most systems — or is it not well streamable?
WTH about this “can’t support it in a legal way” though?
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Date: 2007-01-01 07:03 pm (UTC)Also: Dear Slashdot, please stop collapsing second replies, I don’t want to open 934782389475623987 fucking tabs just to read comments to a single fucking post.
Jesus, that site pisses me off every single time I go there, and there don’t even have to be tuxtards commenting to achieve the effect…
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