RTSP Client For GNU/Linux Systems?

Posted by timothy on Monday March 26, 2001 @12:40PM from the steaming-media dept.

gilgongo writes: "The Arts Council of England are doing an interview with Richard Stallman for the CODE conference here in the UK, and we plan to stream an archive of it later that day. Stallman has stipulated that his interview must be able to be seen by GNU/Linux systems (i.e. just RealVideo is a no-no). Our RealServer installation (running on RedHat 6.2) will do RTSP, so we assume that takes care of the protocol worries, but now we can't find any eaily obtained/installed clients to test it on. So - what do Linuxers use for seeing those streaming media clips with?" So with what tools would you most like to experience this interview? (And I hope streaming isn't the only option -- what's wrong with a nice downloadable version? Not everyone has a fast connection.)

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Re:Finally! by Jamie+Zawinski · 2001-03-26 14:07 · Score: 5

Finally, someone appearing on a "streamed" event has had clue enough to say, "Um, can the people interested in me actually see this?"

If he was interested in whether the people interested in seeing it actually could, then it would be a no-brainer: he would use RealVideo. Because almost all people using GNU software are running Linux (and most of the rest are running Solaris) and those people have free-as-in-beer RealPlayers easily available to them.
But he's not interested in whether his target audience can see him.
He's interested in using this as an opportunity to make a political statement.
Which is fine.
But call it what it is. It's certainly not the pragmatic decision that you characterized it as.