[ripecast] Linux / Unix client for Webcasting

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Jarno Lähteenmäki wrote:

> I used the VideoLan client (www.videolan.org) instead of MPlayer.
>
> I found it much more rich featured. It can turn unicast stream into
> multicast or vice versa. It can record into hard-drive. It supports also
> almost any known OS.

I haven't tried this myself, but if it does support the Windows Media 9
Audio codec, go for it.  Currently MPlayer does _NOT_ support this codec,
which is closing out any unix/linux/*bsd users from hearing the sessions
as our encoding only supports Windows Media 9 audio codecs.

The obvious solution is that we change our encoder to use the previous
codec (as used in Barcelona in May).  Unfortunately, MS is not making the
Windows Media 8 Audio codec available for their encoder (they do for the
player) anymore.  I'm somewhat redfaced that I didn't keep the original
install file before having the machines reinstalled at the moment.

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