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Sneak Peak at the Sling Player for Mac OSX

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sling-back-to-the-future dept.

kjh1 writes to tell us the folks over at SlingCommunity are running an interview with Brian Jaquet of Sling Media. They get the scoop on the upcoming SlingPlayer for Mac OSX. There is a text transcript as well as a video version of the interview."

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  1. "peek". by hatless · · Score: 5, Funny

    A sneak mountaintop?

    1. Re:"peek". by chazwurth · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, that's correct. Widdling: the practice of taking something big and making it widdle.

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      The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'. --Dan Kaminsky
  2. Dear god. by jb.hl.com · · Score: 5, Informative

    OK, this article is as clear as mud.

    1) What is Sling?
    2) What is SlingPlayer?
    3) What is special about SlingPlayer?

    Someone tell me, please.

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    1. Re:Dear god. by Andy_R · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, I visited their site, and it doesn't say what the damn thing actually is (or if it does, it's in a non-obviousl place), and after 2 minutes 30 of the video, all I know is that the developer doesn't know that the Dock is called the Dock. However, the interviewer does say "awsome" at least once in every sentence, so it must be good!

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  3. In Layman's terms... by cyclocommuter · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...A Slingbox is is a device that allows me to stream video from my Set Top Box (STB), DVD player, cable connection, etc., so I can watch it on any PC, Handheld device, Mobile Phone (certain models), and now Mac computer (running the SlingPlayer software) on the LAN or over the internet. So I can be on some business trip in Asia but still be able to watch local shows from my STB in North America via the internet. This is what is known as place shifting. It is actually pretty cool...

  4. Article is spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ATTENTION SLASHDOT EDITORS:

    Please stop posting press releases as "news". This is a e p.r. stunt and you're diluting what little credibility shashdot has by putting what is essentially an ad on the front page

  5. Re:Better Idea by eldepeche · · Score: 4, Funny

    -1, Can't spell.

  6. Re:VideoLAN by entrylevel · · Score: 4, Informative

    NTSC is many things, but calling 320x240 "full resolution" is wrong. NTSC has several resolutions, all of which are considerably higher than 320x240.

    The slingbox is awesome for $100, but VLC (and one of my favorites, the deprecated VLS) really has a leg up on the options it gives you. One of my favorite features is that it can transcode either a video file or input stream (from a capture card for example) into any other format it supports for playback, in realtime (as long as your CPU can handle it). I use it to stream 5 Mbit/sec video over wireless every day and it works and looks fantastic.

    In my experience, VLC's lowest-end quality (for example, trying to send upstream on a crippled US cable modem or ADSL), looks far better than the highest quality available from a Slingbox. Other pluses are that VLC runs the same (and supports the same features and codecs) on all major operating systems and your stream will never be wrapped in DRM.

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  7. Re:Dear god Indeed! by Cadallin · · Score: 4, Informative
    Would you whiny bitches quit posting "I don't understand!" "What's this about?" "I don't get it?" Do you do the same thing thing with the Nightly News? Do you hear "Volcano erupts in Hawii" and immmediately ask: "Whats a Volcano?" "What's this Ha-waa-eee thing?" "Isn't an eruption something that happens in sex?"

    Sure, Sure mod me flame bait. But I'm fucking right here. If these people took any effort at all, or the same effort as making a post(!) they'd know.

    Googling Slingplayer, the top fucking link is:

    http://us.slingmedia.com/page/slingplayer.html

    Which is the fucking product page! Searching Wikipedia for Slingplayer doesn't return it immediately, but gives this page:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search =slingplayer a list with the top(!) link being the Slingbox, the device this software interfaces with. It tooke me much longer to write this post than it did for me to do those searches, and that's the truth. It's not like this information is secret and hidden. A simple search on the most common information sources gives it straight out.