Re: Newsnight

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:

> > > I think the .rm and the pnm:// mean it's a RealVideo stream or some
> > > other such new fangledness ;)

> > pnm is almost 5 years old the new fangled (but also getting old now) is
> > rtsp:// which is what I'm working on at the moment with my linux encoders
> > whenever I get time between the dull work.
 
> New fangled to someone still running over a 9'600 connection!!!

I use 9,600 almost more than I use the 36megabit connection at work, or the
128k ISDN (soon to be ADSL  [at] 512kbits in 3.5 days)

Due to my ability to do all my work in 80x13 or 80x24 using the "screen"
program, and by never tieing myself to a gui admin tool knowing the cms line
for all work means 9,600 is really easy for me.

My entry to the internet was when Sheffield Uni went from X25-PAD to tcp/ip
some 7 years ago or so.  It gave me downloads of amazing speeds, as it was a
proper Janet connection.  Once I left Uni, I had no intention of taking a
technological step backwards, modem's were late 70's tech I needed speed.  So
I went for ISDN at home, which was as slow as I could bare, and spent a fun
18 months at ICL gaining 'access' to the internet via various means
through the firewalls ;).

Now I have cellular, isdn, adsl, T3 all at almost peek speeds, I've never
owned a modem and am amazed that in the year 2000 people still do!

> I could certainly teach some of you lot lessons about bandwidth ;)))) What
> encoders are you using under linux? Video encoding is sort of a hobby of
> mine at the moment, I keep meaning to do some more linux video work but I
> never get around to it.
 
We use RealProducer, which talks V4Lv1 to /dev/video and OSS to /dev/dsp
The package is 36meg, but by trial and error I've got that down to 20
(deleting large java class files that didn't seem to be used for the cmdline
version, and some X libs that worked as symb links to libc.so.6, do fool the
runtime loader) the solid state harddrives are 40meg so I've used color.gz
from slackware as a base dist and subtracted and added stuff to make a
useable 4-5 meg distribution.

Damion

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