software to get streaming

[Simon Bone]

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
> 

coders/decoders. In other words, a software library that can understand
a particular (usually compressed or encrypted) format. Without the right
codec, data is inaccessible to your programs.

HTH

Simon Bone