Free streamer software for linux

News Streamer provides a script to play the most recent France 2 news report with Mplayer.

The French TV station France 2 has been kind enough to make its news broadcasts available on the Internet. However, this has been done in a way thats not particularly friendly to non-Microsoft products.

This script makes things easier by checking for the availability of the most recent news report and then playing it using Mplayer.

The checking for the availability of an episode is done using a mmsrip.

If its useful to you to watch the news at a different speed, a speed parameter may be passed to this script (eg f2 0.5 to play at half speed)

If the most recent episode is not available, this script will keep searching back until it finds the most recent available episode.

It wont keep searching for ever, however, and gives up after 10 episodes.

To be honest, if it doesnt find anything after 10 episodes it probably means that theres a problem at their end, theyve change their URL format, or youve got some kind of network trouble.

Want to watch Youtube video, but you dont have Flash plugin? (ex: gnu/linux ppc os), so try this great script to watch STREAMING VIDEOS from Youtube! You dont need to download video on your disk, you can stream directly the FLV videos from Youtube!

MPlayer Youtube Video Streamer lets you watch YouTube videos even if you dont have the flash plugin.

Usage: myvs [options] video_url

Options:

-h, --help print this help text and exit
-v, --version print program version and exit
-u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME account username
-p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD account password
-o FILE, --output=FILE output video file name
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
-s, --stream do not download video, but stream directly by mplayer
-C, --cache set a cache of 300k, for slow connection
-c, --cycle cycle 20 times while youtube redirect to vo.llnwd.net (that streams .flv)
-t, --title use title in file name
-n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
-O, --streamonly Force the script to stream only, if it doesnt find a valid stream server simply quit

Who to use it with Firefox:

Now I will explain you how to get it working with Firefox,

First we need a Firefox extension called: Lanchy,
this extension give us the ability to open directly from Firefox Youtube video on youtube webpage (not on all webpages that have a youtube video!

You ALWAYS need the youtube videos webpage! After you have installed Launchy (from firefoxs addon site), restart Firefox, now it will ask you to insert a Launchys button on your toolbar (DO IT! so open Youtube videos will be very simply), after that go on the preferences/option of this extension and uncheck the option: "search automatically programs".

Now copy the "launchy.xml" file that you found on the package and copy it on your directory:
".mozilla/firefox/YOUR_ID.default/chrome/" , after copied it, please dont forget to edit it with your myvs.py COMPLETE PATH, and add or delete oppurtune option to pass to the script.

Now restart again firefox an watch if it recognise the command (by pressing the G).

Go on youtube.com, open a video webpage, click on the G button-> Open in Mplayer Youtube Video Streamer.

LAME is short from LAME Aint an MP3 Encoder and is a research project for learning about and improving MP3 encoding technology. LAME includes an MP3 encoding library, simple frontend application, a much-improved psycho-acoustic model (GPSYCHO), and a graphical frame analyzer (MP3x).
Please note that any commercial use (including distributing the LAME encoding engine in a free encoder) may require a patent license from Thomson Multimedia.
Main features:
- Many improvements in quality in speed over ISO reference software. See history.
- MPEG1,2 and 2.5 layer III encoding.
- CBR (constant bitrate) and two types of variable bitrate, VBR and ABR.
- Encoding engine can be compiled as a shared library (Linux/UNIX), DLL or ACM codec (Windows)
- free format encoding and decoding
- GPSYCHO: a GPLd psycho acoustic and noise shaping model.
- Powerfull and easy to use presets
- Quality is comparable to FhG encoding engines and substantially better than most other encoders.
- Fast! Encodes faster than real time on a PII 266 at highest quality mode.
- MP3x: a GTK/X-Window MP3 frame analyzer for both .mp3 and unencoded audio files.
Software which uses "LAME":
- andromeda (PHP and ASP) Dynamically presents collections of mp3s as streaming web sites.
- rip (Perl) Script for ripping and encoding.
- avifile AVI/DIVX encoder and decoder for Linux.
- Grip (Linux) gtk-based cd-player, ripper and encoder. Supports cddb, cdparanoia and LAME.
- jbm2 (Linux) A KDE jukebox style application for public places (bars, pubs,...)
- Krabber (Linux) A KDE ripper & encoder, can use LAME.
- Mp3Maker (Linux) A WindowMaker enhanced front end to cdda2wav/cdparanoia and lame/bladeenc.
- dekagenc (Linux) Bourne shell script for ripping, encoding and CDDB naming.
- ripperX (Linux) GTK frontend for rippers and several encoders featuring CDDB support.
- T.E.A.R. (Linux) frontend to LAME, cdparanoia and CDDB.
- Xmcd. (Linux) CD Player with CDDB and ripping to MP3 and OGG.
- xtunes (Linux) GTK frontend for LAME, MAD, cdparanoia, cdrecord and more.
- DropMP3 (Mac) includes LAME binaries.
- CDex (Windows) Ripper & encoder, includes LAME binaries (the Blade compatible dll)
- Lamedrop (Windows) OggDrop style frontend.
- LAMEX (Windows) An activex control for LAME, and a GUI. Source code only, includes LAME.
- m3w (Windows) A live mp3 streamer for the WWW. Works with LAME, icecast, soundcard input
- out_lame (Windows) Winamp output plug-in. Create MP3 files directly from Winamp!
- RazorLame (Windows) The RazorBlade front end now supports LAME.
- winLAME (Windows) The only *nice* windows UI for LAME, according to the author :-)
- DarkIce Live streamer for IceCast.
- LiveIce Real time streaming of mp3s. Works with IceCast
- MuSE A mixing, encoding and streaming engine.
- Flash Forth a Flash-like development library
Enhancements:
- This version is identical to 3.97b3, which was promoted to release.

AcmosisFR is a PHP frontend for IRPd, the shoutcast/icecast streamer. Using this frontend you can create a fully interactive radio service accesible via webpage (providing current song details,requesting/skipping songs, statistics, playlist management).

It supports addons:

img.php - example of dynamic text (gd.library)
index.php - example of webpage
irpd-shout.patch , irpd.conf - patch and config file with new settings
playlist_update - perl script, generates playlist and reloads playlist in irpd streamer
testin.php - php script to test AcmosisFR functionality

WiredBackup is a program which creates a backup over the net.

NetBackup makes an incremental tar backup, compresses it with b2zip, and symmetric encrypts it using gpg.

The changed backup data is then transfered to an ftp server.

This is useful for people who have too much Web space, and too few streamers.

Test::Struct is a Perl extension for testing for structural equivelence.

SYNOPSIS

use Test::Struct;

deep_eq($hairy_struct,$expected,Hairy structural test);
is($x,$y); # and everything else Test::More has to offer!

Test::Struct is used for doing deep structural comparisons of two objects. The module contains only one subrotuine which is intended to be used as a mix-in with other more generic Test::Builder derived modules like Test::More or Test::Simple. The code normally uses Scalar::Util for inspecting the data, but it will also use additional fine tuned comparison tools from Data::Dump::Streamer if they are available.
deep_eq($got,$expected,$name)

Does a deep level comparison of two objects. It traverses the two structures in parallel checking as many attributes as it can for differences. If the objects differ it will output a diagnostic message containing a list of the differences it encountered before it finished the comparison. Some types of mismatch prevent further comparison so the list may not be exhaustive.

The intention of this routine is that it will pass the test only if $got is functionally identical to $expected. However, at current time there are some data types it does not handle properly, such as CODE refs.

Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer. Zina can run on its own, embeded into an existing website, or as a Postnuke/PHPNuke/Xoops/Mambo module. It is similar to Andromeda, but released under the GNU General Public License.
Main features:
- MP3 / OGG / WAV / WMA / Real Audio streaming
- Custom and "Session" Playlists
- Random, non-repeating playlists by albums or songs
- "Skip Track:" Easily exclude songs from albums and random playlists
- Searching
- Simple Installation (no database)
- Easy to configure:(uses regular text and graphic files for customization)
- Can be used as a Postnuke or PHPNuke module
- As of 0.11.09 can be used as an Xoops module or MamboServer component
- Can downsample mp3s on the fly (with external encoder like LAME)
- Can dynamically resize images if your version of PHP (with GD library) supports it.
- Localization support (0.10.x: English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Traditional Chinese, French, Danish, Bulgarian, Croation, Hebrew, Basque, Russian, Norwegian, Turkish, Swedish, Slovakian, Hungarian, Catalan, Brazilian, Albanian, Romanian, Finnish, Greek, Kannada; 0.11.x adds Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese)
- Many of the features of Andromeda
- Many other features (see Changelog)
- Released under GNU General Public License
Requierments:
- PHP 4.1.x on the Apache web server (IIS is not supported, although it may work, see here).
- Any web browser that supports JavaScript and CSS.
- An media player (Winamp, xmms, mpg123, etc.) that supports .m3u playlists (and .asx in 0.11.x).
Enhancements:
- This release hopefully adds better ID3 Unicode support.
- It also includes a Vietnamese translation.