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Linuxfest Northwest 2005 Webcast 5

Posted by timothy from the join-in-now dept.
Hardlines writes "Linuxfest Northwest 2005 presented by the Bellingham Linux Users Group is offering a live webcast of the presenters (in Quicktime). A schedule of presenters is available, for reference, the webcast is taking place in room G-103." As of this moment, former Slashdot editor and general good guy Chris DiBona is about to start a talk on the state of open source projects at Google.
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  • Quicktime??? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by advocate_one ( 662832 ) on Saturday April 30, 2005 @04:07PM (#12393846)
    what idiot decided to use quicktime??? what the heck was wrong with picking a free codec for doing it with???

    • Re:Quicktime??? (Score:1, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      The stream is being broadcast through an open source streaming server called Darwin streaming server, and can be viewed using Video Lan Client. Check out http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ [videolan.org]. It's a platform that has proven to be stable.
      • If only its capabilities were as stable. No two files seem to get the same result with it on either my Windows or FC3 boxes, whether Quicktime, MPEG-2, or AVI. Sometimes it plays them, sometimes it doesn't.

        I agree that something more friendly to the Linux community itself would have been better. I resist the urge to go tinfoil hat and say this was a telling tacit comment on the Linux community's friendliness towards the Mac in these days of the BSD-ish OSX, but will resist and not make that statement. Yo

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