[TriLUG] Linux Screaming Media (was: Digital Audo Wkst...)

[James Brigman]

Mark and all you audio/video guys:

What's up with the Audio and Video stuff for Linux? (I'm thinking
specifically about CCRMA and VLC.) The target Linux platforms are RH9
and Fedora Core. Does the stuff just work (without comment) on RHEL, or
is there a reason it's targeted only for RH9 and FC?

I need to build a streaming media server (something that'll ship out
video nicely) and VLC is only for RH9 and FC. For the scenario I would
be using the server in, RH9 and FC are right-out, RHEL is what I need
(well, CentOS) and none of these tools seem to run on RHEL/CentOS? Is it
worth the time to experiment and try it out? (I dread that)

The expected path to take is the Dark Side (XP) but I'd rather do this
with Gentoo or CentOS: the server has to hang out on the public 'net so
I want to strip it down to nothing. There's VLC for Gentoo out there,
but I'd like to experiment at home first with CentOS. Thoughts?

Anyone out there got a media server on the net that they can talk about?

JKB

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 00:15 -0400, Mark Shuford wrote:

> So the short answer is yes, if these use MCM output, which I believe I
> recall that they do. Now, the Mackie stuff is _nice_ if you've got the
> dough, that's not me. The TASCAM stuff is good but I sometimes think a
> little overpriced once others have gotten into the market to give some
> competition. But if you can afford it I would not hesitate to buy TASCAM
> -- I have before, with much satisfaction.

> Have you looked at CCRMA, Stanford's Center for Computer Research in
> Music and Acoustics? That is CCRMA at Home
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ .  I've been using stuff
> they've collected together, which includes Ardour and Audacity and lots
> of other tools and JACK, for over a year.

> Do not follow the Dark (XP) side of the Force. You can have thousands of
> dollars worth of music recording and production software for the work
> you put into it. That and the computer and the sound-card you choose.