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Story: UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming
Still the Waverley Council Site not quite telling the truth.
On the Waverley Council site they tell you that you will need MS IE6. Of course I like this article tried it out with Firefox on Ubuntu (using the Mplayer plugin for Mozilla) and indeed it does work.
Of course the EC site would always work for such a setup. They just told you you couldn't and if you could it would be illegal. Well they first recanted about it being illegal and they have now grudgingly but completely recanted:
"On which platforms can I view the live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union?
The live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms.
The open source community can follow the public events in the Council, broadcasted through video streaming on the Internet, via means of an open source player like VLC which is available at no cost on the Internet and which is running on several platforms as e.g. MS WINDOWS as well as several LINUX distributions."
(From the EC site FAQ)
However the EC site is only available on wmv so you are in the legal grey area of a download of the codec from a site in Hungary (well Hungary is an EU member) maybe not legal in the States but legal here in Canada. The Waverley stream is available on RealMedia as well as wmv. You can of course 100% legally download Real Player for Linux and the Realmedia codecs. The Waverley site integrates with my Linux system better than the EC one and is more pleasant to use.
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