Streaming
audio/video from a web server: A couple of years ago, I spent
hours tracking down the information that's on this page. I wish I had
found it back then. Very handy.
Streaming can be initiated with the help of redirector files.
Linking to the redirector file will cause the associated player
software to start on the client computer (if it's properly set up),
and playback will start almost immediately (after buffering a small
amount of data). Note that the player software will only start if a
user has selected to play the media, this is a big advantage compared
to embedded media.
Stream Analyzer 0.4
Stream Analyzer 0.412/10/2003 06:41 PM Analyses binary data streams and calculates statistics.
I have yet to enter Proto Merkabah. I was going to sit down and
play Xenosaga, but I was dealing with a crash in the new CSS parser
caused by some of you Web freaks using :not (a CSS3 selector supported
by Mozilla). The syntax of this selector is such that it isn't
compatible with the CSS2.1 grammar, so I added rules to recognize
:not.
Once I did that I realized I was about 10 lines away from
implementing :not. Ok, so 12 lines later (yes, it did turn out to be
a little bigger than I thought, turns out :not can't nest for no
apparent reason I can discern), :not came into being in Safari.
So of course then I had to test :not, which meant I had to go load
the CSS3 test suite. As I started flipping through pages I found all
sorts of bugs with some of the selectors like the ~= selector, and
then I stumbled on all these brainlessly easy selectors that Safari
just didn't support.
Well, that just pissed me off, so I went and implemented :empty,
:root and ::selection. Yes, I am just that random. Maybe I'll do
some of the other CSS3 selectors if I have time.
Anyway, back to Xenosaga. I've played enough poker at the casino
to afford the 300,000 GP AWGS, and I got Shion's super Ether attack
that involves the summoning of a giant robot called Erde Kaiser. I
think he's supposed to be intimidating and just generally badass, but
I think he looks like a giant Transformer.
Add to that the fact that he's brightly colored and seems to be
built out of Lego blocks, and you just really don't have a recipe for
intimidation.
The game still rocks though. :)
MSN to Stream Movies to Television
MSN to Stream Movies to Television01/06/2005 03:31 PM MSN announced Thursday that it will begin to offer pay-per-view movies
from CinemaNow through its MSN TV 2 set-top boxes beginning in spring
2005. Customers will receive an upgrade to their boxes, which will
allow them to view content protected with digital rights management.
Day trip boy drowns in stream08/02/2004 06:47 AM Emergency crews fail to save a seven-year-old boy whose body was found
in a stream.
Congolese stream into Burundi
Congolese stream into Burundi06/15/2004 01:33 PM Thousands of refugees flee eastern DR Congo saying they are terrified
of renewed fighting.
Mini-stream Ripper v0.80
Mini-stream Ripper v0.8006/20/2004 08:04 AM Mini-stream Ripper is a CD Ripper and music converter for the platform
of Windows which is convenient for you to rip CD to RM, MP3, WMA, or
WAV audio files directly. Mini-stream Ripper makes it easy for you to
convert the music in RM, RMVB, RA, RMJ, RAM, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, ASX
and WAV audio files into other format audio files at the same time.
And you will find the interface quite familiar and friendly.
[Shareware $24.95 30 Days 5.12 MB]
Convert a Real stream into an AVI
Convert a Real stream into an AVI08/09/2004 11:34 AM I have a P900 mobile phone and like watching movies on it using the
SmartMovie application. This application also supports other mobile
devices (PALM, PocketPC, Symbian-Phones, etc.) so check this out if
you ever wanted to wa...
Stream Video with MSN Messenger03/13/2003 10:20 AM Microsoft gives MSN Messenger 5.0 users the ability stream live video
to others. Logitech will host the video streams on...
NBC partners with MySpace to stream
NBC partners with MySpace to stream03/17/2005 03:19 AM The Office on
MySpace Even though the leaked pilot met poor reviews on
Metafilter, it's interesting that NBC turned to massive social
networking group MySpace to launch the American version of The Office.
MySpace will stream the whole first episode of The Office on March
16th at 8PM while the episode will air for the first time on NBC March 24th. Maybe BitTorrent has really gotten
to them.
Triangle photo stream
Triangle photo stream04/09/2005 09:43 AM
If you want to subscribe to newsfeed of photos from the Triangle area,
paste the URL below into your newsreader. You'll get photos of
Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, NC along with the occasional photo
of Durham, England and random triangle art. I think that's a pretty
good mix.
Stream part deux.03/19/2003 10:43 PM And now, another stream of consciousness. Where is my mind, indeed.
British Council Chooses Stream UK
British Council Chooses Stream UK09/08/2004 03:01 AM The British Council has chosen Stream UK to deliver its rich media
content worldwide. [PRWEB Sep 8, 2004]
Stream Anything to an AirPort
Express Using Airfoil -- Rogue Amoeba has released the first
version of Airfoil, a program that can take the audio output of any
program under Mac OS X and stream it using AirTunes to an AirPort
Express's audio output jack. It's a simple piece of software that will
delight all AirPort Express owners who want to stream audio from
applications such as QuickTime Player, RealPlayer, or Windows Media
Player. However, due to latency between Airfoil and the AirPort
Express, audio and video will not be synchronized, such as when
playing a DVD and sending the audio to a home stereo; Rogue Amoeba has
posted a possible workaround that's worth trying. There's no guarantee
that Apple might not step in and update their AirTunes software to
disable Airfoil, but it doesn't seem to fall into the category of
things that Apple believes is detrimental to their products,
contracts, or partners. The software costs $25, but Rogue Amoeba is
offering it at an introductory offer of $20 through 31-Mar-05.
[GF]
WWDC 2004 Keynote Stream Available06/28/2004 09:29 PM
Apple has quietly posted a quicktime video of today's WWDC 2004
Keynote Speech.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc04/
Steve Jobs introduced...
For a Fee, a Stream of Tunes, Talk and Video
For a Fee, a Stream of Tunes, Talk and Video09/09/2004 01:40 AM High-speed connections and software improvements are giving rise to
subscription services for music, movies, sports events and talk radio
to PC's.
Stream MP3 songs in iTunes from iDisk04/26/2004 10:24 AM Have you ever placed an MP3 file in your Sites folder on your iDisk?
Well if you do so, and if you copy the link into a web browser (I use
FileChute to easily copy and paste the links to my iDisk files), the
song will play in...
MWSF Keynote Stream Posted
MWSF Keynote Stream Posted01/07/2004 04:32 PM Apple has posted a QuickTime stream of yesterday's MacWorld Keynote
presentation by CEO Steve Jobs. During the Keynote, Jobs introduced
Final Cut Express 2.0, new Xserve and Xraid models, an upgrade of the
iLife suite, the new iPod mini, and more.
MSN TV and CinemaNow Will Stream Movies From the Web to Television
MSN TV and CinemaNow Will Stream Movies From the Web to Television01/06/2005 10:08 PM The MSN® TV division (http://www.msntv.com) of Microsoft Corp., a leader
in the delivery of interactive services for television, and CinemaNow
Inc. (http://www.cinemanow.com), a leader in broadband
video-on-demand (VOD) distribution and technology, plan to offer
broadband customers of MSN TV the ability to stream CinemaNow content
directly from the Internet to an ordinary TV set by using the MSN TV 2
Internet & Media Player with service from Microsoft.1
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Bushism DVD out
Bushism DVD out09/23/2004 09:59 PM Xeni Jardin:
Bushisms the book is now
Bushisms the DVD --
hosted by comic uber-genius Brian Unger of The
Daily Show. The DVD features Al Franken and others
commenting on nucular-strength malapropisms from the presidentiary
such as:
# "War is a dangerous place."
# "Karyn is a West Texas girl, just like me."
# "Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning."
Link (Disclaimer: I'm proud
to be Mr. Unger's colleague/co-contributor on the NPR show
"Day to Day").
"We yearn for a grand unified theory of Bushism that would put the two halves of the agenda together. Now, at last, with the revelation that Ahmad Chalabi has been passing intelligence information to the regime in Iran, the opportunity presents itself to..."
"A new service called StreamMan has commercially launched
today with TeliaSonera in Finland and will be launched across Europe
with major mobile operators in the near future.
Developped by End2End
in partnership with Sony Network Services, StreamMan enables
end-users to enjoy a large portfolio of songs from both major and
independent record labels, as well as access dynamic news content,
artist information, and community features such as messaging and music
exchange. More in company press
release" [ringtonia.com]
"I was reading about your upcoming adventure with considerable envy
when I realized i'd seen something similar in june or so and sure
enough, a Hungarian online mag has a first-person account of such a
flight right here in budapest. a 20-year old soviet-built Antonov 2
plane is used for the stunt, apparently flown by one of hungary's top
fighter pilots (this part is not clear). it's all in hungarian but
check out the pictures. it's groovy."
Update: Péter Kelemen says, "Well, the
pilot is Gyula VÁRI (former squadron leader), the article says
nothing about him being one of Hungary's top fighter pilot. But he is
the President of the Hungarian Aeronautical Association. (Link). The flight
itself is about 20 minutes in 1000-3000m altitude while having 10-12
weightlessness-sessions of 7-10 sec each. G changes between 0-3
during the flight."
"I was reading about your upcoming adventure with considerable envy
when I realized i'd seen something similar in june or so and sure
enough, a Hungarian online mag has a first-person account of such a
flight right here in budapest. a 20-year old soviet-built Antonov 2
plane is used for the stunt, apparently flown by one of hungary's top
fighter pilots (this part is not clear). it's all in hungarian but
check out the pictures. it's groovy."
CNET: RealNetworks breaks Apple's hold on iPod.
RealNetworks announced Monday that it has unlocked some of Apple
Computer's most tightly held technology secrets, giving its music a
way onto the popular iPod digital music player.
There's good news in this announcement, namely the fact
that Real is forcing a tiny bit more openness on Apple, which has been
trying for a winner-take-all approach to digital music. More choice,
and less lock-in, by these companies is always a good idea.
But Real is no prize when it comes to locking customers into another
box: the one the music industry has created with its insistence on
absolute control over digital music. Real's approach to selling songs
is not that at all: It says you're only renting them. At least Apple
says you (mostly) own what you're buying.
Nonetheless, this is progress of a sort.
Google hacks are for real
Google hacks are for real08/06/2004 09:40 AM Google hacks are for real, regardless of what some uber-hackers may
think or say. They can produce passwords, user IDs, credit card
numbers, Social Security numbers, bank account numbers and routing
codes, and more. They can also be used to troll for vulnerabilities.
One quick example: using one of the simplest Google advanced operators
in combination with another operator, I quickly found a number of
Microsoft IIS 6.0 Authentication Manager pages exposed to the Internet
on Army, Navy, state, and federal agency sites. In fact, finding the
sites proved to be much easier than alerting them to the
vulnerability.
I-Logix Partners With Toshiba Information Systems of Japan to Distribute Rhapsody
SMC and RealNetworks Help Digital Music Fans Go Wireless and Enjoy Rhapsody Throughout the Home
SMC and RealNetworks Help Digital Music Fans Go Wireless and Enjoy Rhapsody Throughout the Home06/17/2004 03:45 AM SMC Networks announced that its EZ-Stream™ Wireless Audio Adapter
(SMCWAA-B) is now compatible with Rhapsody®, the award-winning
Internet jukebox service from RealNetworks®. Available now in retail
stores and through select resellers at an MSRP of $129.99, the new
EZ-Stream 2.4GHz 11Mbps Wireless Audio Adapter makes it easy for
consumers to stream music stored on or accessible via their PC to any
room in the home using their existing wireless home networks. [PRWEB
Jun 17, 2004]
Real Networks Hacks iPod; .rm & Real Store for iPod
Mac OS X Hacks Put to Bed03/11/2003 11:41 PM Mac OS X Hacks was just sent to the printer, which means it'll
be appearing in online bookstores and on your local brick-and-mortar
bookstore shelves in a couple-three weeks. Whew!
Two little CSS hacks03/11/2003 10:46 AM Workarounds to vertically align nested blocks and to emulate the CSS's
min-height property in MSIE.
TiVo Hacks Put to Bed
TiVo Hacks Put to Bed10/28/2003 11:06 PM
My month of a thousand hacks ended this morning as I put TiVo Hacks to bed (read: sent it to production).
Raffi, my young
TiVo Jedi friend, good on you, mate! I've learned more about my TiVo
over the past month than I'd ever wanted to. Now where'd I put that
screwdriver...
The book will be in brick-and-mortar bookstore shelves sometime in
August, but you can of course pre-order it from Amazon.
Hacks.O'Reilly.com
Hacks.O'Reilly.com03/11/2003 09:43 AM The full-blown version of O'Reilly's Hacks Series site is now up at
hacks.oreilly.com. In
addition to
info about the current crop of books (Linux Server, Google, Mac OS X),
there are listings of
published hacks, some
complete hacks, and each has its own discussion forum.
Gotta Hack? Got a non-obvious solution to an interesting problem? Throw
your hack into the ring and it just might be in a Hacks
book-to-be. Not a hacker yourself but have a hack or Hacks book you'd
like to see? Suggest
it and perhaps it will be so written.
phpAdsNew Hacks
phpAdsNew Hacks08/16/2004 10:15 PM phpAdsNew 2.0.2 CVS 2004-08-16 Released
The MIT Gallery of Hacks.
The MIT Gallery of Hacks.01/04/2004 05:52 PM The MIT Gallery of Hacks.
Good-natured creative pranks by MIT
students. The pinnacle was possibly 1999's Great Droid,
with the Great Dome made to resemble R2D2's head to mark the release
of some film or other at the time. In the spirit of the tradition,
students left detailed instructions for the safe removal of the
decoration.
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Excel Hacks
Excel Hacks05/06/2004 06:58 PM for all you dorks who were geeking out in the Excel Pile thread
New: Excel Hacks
New: Excel Hacks04/09/2004 04:01 PM O'Reilly's Excel Hacks offers 100 tips and techniques that include
hacking pivot tables, designing charts beyond the basic types,
specifying dynamic ranges, using XML, and more.
Mac OS X Panther Hacks
Mac OS X Panther Hacks08/11/2004 06:15 AM
I finally got round to reading my copy of the wonderful O'Reilly Mac
OS X Panther Hacks book, which, like all of the hacks books, is
clever, informative, well-organised and useful; this one has the
additional merit of having been co-written by my pal Rael Dornfest, who edits the line, and
is witty, silly and very imaginative indeed. The hacks assembled in
the text range from surprising things you can do with iTunes and iCal
to hacking AppleScript to making OS X cooperate with perl and Python,
but my favorite of all is the iOscillate: an iSight camera mounted to
the top of a de-bladed oscillating desk-fan, so that the fan sweeps
the iSight back and forth in a steady, 180-degree arc, covering all
those seated around a table or in a conference. The hack is truly
worthy of the appellation "hack" -- it's ingenious, funny, and
actually useful in a seriously bent way.
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