Media Streaming for Dummies?

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, 2004 @07:31AM from the what-no-floppy-drives dept.

Jon writes "Back in grade school, one of the things I helped the school set up/run was a in-school broadcasting system based on a few simple switches that went between a HyperCard stack with cool animations and the kids that would tell the news for the day. It's a great way to get kids involved in school, and my mother who is now a principal at another school is wanting to get something similar set up again. However, they don't have cable outlets in all the classrooms, and so I've been pondering streaming the content over their network. All the rooms are running Mac OS X. So, I turn here to Slashdot to ask, if you had 26 classrooms how would you approach the problem of getting video to them in an inexpensive way?"

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Re:Windows Media Encoder 7/9 by jgaynor · 2004-08-28 14:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Are YOU the poster? It's quite obvious since there IS no wme for OSX that a winboxen would be nescessary to do this. While the poster mentioned mac clients, I don't think the entire school would be 100% apple. As for client software you're right - everyone and their mother has the WMV codecs installed.

Just suggesting a FREE (at least as in beer) option - there's no reason to let your zealotry blind you. I used macs until I was 18 and since then have worked with just about everything else under the sun. If there is only one truth - it's that there is no one platform worth flaming over :).