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>> >I know nothing about streaming video servers.  I suggest that you ask
>> at a
>> >video streaming forum first.  If you like, I can translate your
>> questions
>> >for them from Russian to English.  (Email me directly, not the list).
>> Are
>> >there still a lot of 100MHz computers in use where you live?
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>> **** *** *** * * ** ***** * ** :-)
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>>You can also ask at the mplayer forum whether mplayer will stream video.
>> >Mplayer works with basiclinux to play streaming audio and video.
>> >I don't think anyone got VLC working with Basiclinux.
>>
>>  **** ** ? ** * VLC **** ***** ****.** * ****** * BL
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Summary of the Russian (which turned into asterisks when I did a 'reply' -
Andrey asks why use mplayer rather than VLC, which is available for linux.

My reply:  Any precompiled versions will require not only a more recent
GLIBC (BL will work with up to GLIBC 2.3.6 from Slackware 11 and a 2.4
kernel) but also quite a few libraries that we don't have and which may
not be available compiled for glibc 2.3.6.  Mplayer can be used
command-line and I have compiled it for BL, as have other users.  It has
far fewer dependencies.  It can play DVDs and streaming audio and I think
also streaming mpeg4.  DVDs require at least 400MHz (with hardframedrop)
and a more recent processor than AMD K6-2 (I tried the latter - impossibly
broken up).  I don't understand just what you want to do with VLC - serve
streaming video or watch it or just download files to be played on another
computer?
Try doing whatever it is on a faster computer and use 'top' to calculate
the percentage of the CPU time used by the process.  If it uses 10% or
less of 1GHz it should work at 100MHz, if the video chip is fast enough
too.

I set up a 120MHz laptop as an internet radio, with an mplayer compiled
specifically for P54C - very old Pentium.  It will work with about 8MB RAM
and very little CPU time.
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>>> Sindi Keesan
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