Newbie with dumb questions...

[Andrew Mason]

On Thursday 17 February 2005 2:12 pm, Cian Duffy wrote:
> > You can safely use some standard WiFi cards, and, unless you're
> > particularly married to the idea of no external things, it's more than
> > enough. There are a few that are known to work with PPC Linux (Orinoco
> > Silver/Gold come to mind?... I'd double check).
>
> Virtually any WiFi card works with Linux these days, althought too
> many of them use ndis_wrapper and hence can't be used on PPC...

There is a brand new one that appeared on newsforge the other day. Can't for 
the life of me remember the name, but its 54mbs and fully open source...gpl 
dirvers and all. I'd get this one :)

> I've used Bluetake (cheap crud), Lucent/Agere/Proxim ORiNOCO Gold and
> Cisco Aironet cards with fully open drivers on x86. I presume these
> drivers work on PPC also.
>
> > > The second major bugbear I have is that I spend a lot of time listening
> > > to Radio National (http://www.abc.net.au/rn) and prefer the net version
> > > to live as FM reception is marginal where I live. The RN stream is a
> > > choice of either Windows Media format or Realplayer format.
> >
> > Don't know how advanced OSS RealPlayer support is for Mac (alas, for
> > i86 Linux there's an official (closed source) binary from Real)
>
> Theres an official, closed source binary RealPlayer 10 for Linux/PPC
> and Solaris/SPARC these days...
>
> https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/downloads/
>
> I had to delete the swf plugin to make it run on YDL4, but YMMV...
>
> > > I kind of know that Windows Media isn´t *ever* going to work on any
> > > Linux machine, but I can find a PPC implementation of a Realplayer.
> > > Does such a thing exist and where do I get it?
> >
> > I think there are some projects that are having meaningful results
> > with some WM formats... again, don't know how advanced the PPC
> > versions are.
>
> Both VideoLAN and mplayer have very good Mozilla plugins on Linux/x86,
> and using their built-in codecs only, support WMA1 and 3 and WMV1.
> WMV3 support will be coming very, very soon.
>
> They also support Quicktime video (all versions) and audio (not version 6).
>
> Neither of these will ever be in YDL's base config as they involve so
> much reverse engineering that they're incredibly illegal in the US.
> Both profects are hosted in the EU and primarily worked on by European
> coders to preserve their legality here.
>
> Cian
>
> > Eric.
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