how to play streaming quicktime videos on linux
November 15, 2007 on 11:41 am | In tech stoof | No CommentsIn troubleshooting connectivity problems with our Folkstreams documentary site, I worked out playing Quicktime streams on my Fedora 8 desktop. Here’s a quick-n-dirty recipe (suggestions and cleanups welcome):
Gather the necessary sources:
mplayer: currently http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2
ffmpeg: SVN via $ svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
faac: currently http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=704
liveMedia: currently http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz
Now, we compile:
- Let’s start with ffmpeg and faac first. The commands should be as simple as the following. Note that you will need to install gcc and the related automake/autoconf/libtool packages included with your distribution if you don’t have them already installed. If your distribution includes packages for ffmpeg and faac (most likely will) go ahead and install them and skip to step 2.
$ tar xvfj ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2
$ cd ffmpeg-export-<date>
$ ./configure –prefix=/usr (the –prefix is optional, but my Linux distro keeps everything beneath /usr, so…)
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ tar xvfz faac-1.25.tar.gz
$ cd faac
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure –prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install - Next we’ll install the liveMedia libraries courtesy of live555.com:
$ tar xvfz live555-latest.tar.gz
$ cd live
$ ./genMakefiles linux
$ make
$ cd ..
$ sudo mv live/ /usr/lib/ - Finally, we install mplayer:
$ tar xvfj MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2
$ cd MPlayer-1.0rc2
$ ./configure –prefix=/usr
Be sure that the enabled optional drivers’ “Input” line includes live555.
$ make
$ sudo make install
That should do it! For now, you will need to right-click on the Folkstreams MPEG link, save streams.php to a file, and copy-paste the movie URL into an MPlayer command line command. In my case, I needed to invoke MPlayer’s “rtsp-stream-over-tcp” option:
$ mplayer -rtsp-stream-over-tcp rtsp://audio-qt.ibiblio.org/folkstreams/video/music_district/music_district-mp4.mov
the week ahead
November 15, 2007 on 8:43 am | In disney, tech stoof, wanderings | No Commentstomorrow i’ll be giving a lunch talk, a report on the proceedings from the 2007 meeting of the Open Content Alliance. on friday november 16th in manning 208 from noon until 1 p.m. then, i am quite literally going to disneyworld!
i’ll be driving to florida as it takes almost as long and way more money to fly, and then i wouldn’t have a car to go anywhere off property. i’m very much looking forward to some forced relaxation – no internet, no work, no housework… but i am bringing my running shoes
Open Content Alliance and the greater San Francisco area
November 5, 2007 on 10:28 am | In tech stoof, wanderings | No CommentsBack in October I flew to San Francisco to take notes the Open Content Alliance and spend a few days exploring the city! Ugh, I’ve been soooo negligent in updating my blog. I’m giving a little report on the OCA meeting to the SILS faculty on next Friday, so I’ll post the presentation notes here.
I have tons of pictures from San Francisco and need to get them organized and uploaded to Flickr, at some point. A few observations on the trip:
- MUNI passes are good things to have. An $18, 3-day MUNI pass got us everywhere we want to go, and quickly!
- Sweet Heat is gone from the Upper Haight
There was one in the Marina district as well, which is now the excellent Chinese restaurant, Country Sky. So, so good! - The Thursday Evensong service at Grace Cathedral was the highlight of my trip, hands down. Archie put up a fuss about going to a boring old church service, but once the service started he was almost as enchanted as I was. The best part, for me, was that Grace allowed worshipers to sit up in the choir since the service was so small – and I got to sit behind the organ bench! If I lived in San Francisco I would probably be at Grace for every service.
- The NextBus placards are as inaccurate in San Francisco as they are in Chapel Hill. I wonder if San Francisco’s installation tracks bus routes on days the buses aren’t running just like Chapel Hill’s installation does.
- We ate breakfast at the over-priced Boudin’s on the Wharf. On the morning before, Buena Vista provided a better breakfast at a much better price. With the cable-car turn-around right outside our window!
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