More about audio-video

[stephen barncard]

J.

There's one open source app that might be ripe for imbedding:

VLC

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

cross-platform, the source is available, and if one can open a window from
the command line....

This idea was inspired a little mac app called NICECAST.  A beautiful mac
front end with an ICECAST server inside. I checked out the app bundle, and
sure enough, there was a folder with the ICECAST code in there.

If it has the right hooks, VLC could be the basis for a library.

If this has been tried before, I apologize.

sqb

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:38 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> Thanks for all the responses. The audio/video files will be prepared by my
> client and served over the internet to customers. We have control over the
> format, the names, whatever is needed.
>
> The catch is that the people who will be viewing the media can be on any
> computer, often one they don't own (i.e., student labs, coffeeshops, their
> neighbors, etc.) and we can't require any software installation. The app
> itself will almost always be on a thumb drive.
>
> No software installs means the media can't require QT, any special codecs,
> etc. Whatever is the lowest common denominator is what we have to use. For
> Macs I can depend on QT but for Windows users I can't.
>
> If the decompressor or codec can be shipped with the app then that may be
> something we could do. But I always thought codecs were installed into the
> OS, and we can't do that.
>
> I'm pretty sure my client, who is an audiophile, wouldn't be happy with
> MPEG-1. So I'm open to suggestions.
>
>
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