software to get streaming

[Gilboa Davara]

In most cases, codecs are software pieces that take a video/audio
stream, and create the output audio/video out of it. 
In short, if you want to play a media player stream you need the
appropriate software library to decompress it and turn it back into the
original video/audio.

Gilboa

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 06:17 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:18 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > mplayer/xine will do the job.
> > You'll might need win32 codecs to open certain WMP/Windows only streams.
> > Freshrpms have both Xine, mplayer and win32 codecs RPMs.
> > 
> > Gilboa
> 
> A technical question: what are codecs?  
> --Jerry
>