[CS-FSLUG] Real Player Linux (Formerly: no subject)

[Don Parris]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:31:17 -0800 (PST)
Chris Brault <groundhog3000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Indeed,
> 
> > Oh, on a 
> > linux note, realplayer 10 is now available for
> > download as an RPM file. 
> > I just installed it today and it works nicely. 
> > Better than 8 did (I didn't bother with 9).
>  
> I've been tracking this for a while.  Real player 10
> came out a few months ago, and I've been writing web
> sites that usually only stream M$ media player and
> urging them to add Realplayer streaming.  One of the
> site, namely www.hallindseyoracle.com, gave me this
> kind of answer:
> 
> "I haven't been to the Real Player site in a really
> long time. Man, it's changed! I've downloaded the Real
> Streamer and the Real Producer. Would you be
> interested in testing the stream?"
> 
> The webmaster for Hal Lindsey uses Fedora Linux, but
> has to cater to the Windows crowd as part of his job.
> I would be willing to bet that there are alot of web
> masters in the same boat, and if given the chance,
> would like to change things up a bit.
> 
> My arguement has been that Windoze no longer supports
> it's media player for Mac and that us Linux people
> have to get ... um ... semi-legal codecs to watch
> Windoze media player streams. It seems that these
> Christian webmasters, of all people, seem to know
> which way the wind is blowing. I have been amazed how
> much more understanding Christian webmasters have been
> (as opposed to most secular ones I've dealt with).
> 
> Anyway, I use RealPlayer 10 to stream music and video
> from  www.christiantuner.com. That's all I can say.
> 
> Gabe
> 
> 
> P.S.: I love the independant Christian music scene.
> 

I am not sure if you're aware, but OS Ministry's webmaster is a member of
a Christian webmasters site - Christian Webmasters.com/org/net -
something like that.  It might be a good thing to post a request like this
over there.

Don

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