Sneak Peak at the Sling Player for Mac OSX 75
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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Direct link to YouTube article (Score:3, Informative)
Here's the on the page. [youtube.com]
Dear god. (Score:5, Informative)
1) What is Sling?
2) What is SlingPlayer?
3) What is special about SlingPlayer?
Someone tell me, please.
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sling!
Re: What's a Sling Player? (Score:2, Informative)
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Bet you feel special having paid for that little * next to your name, eh jackass?
It's not just an advertisement... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dear god. (Score:5, Funny)
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BTW, I didn't know what it was either.
In Layman's terms... (Score:5, Informative)
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So, it's like the EyeTV [macupgrades.co.uk] but it costs twice as much, doesn't record, isn't yet Mac compatible, does lossy recompression on everything and won't let you watch programmes on more than 1 device at a time?
Why am I supposed to be impressed, exactly?
Er no, not at all (Score:3, Informative)
It is basically for people without many computer skills. They've got a computer (probably running Windows, maybe OSX) but they don't use it much. They've probably got broadband and they like watching TV. Usually they watch TV on their TV. Sometimes they want to watch it on their computer, sometimes they want to watch it on their laptop, sometimes on their mobile, sometimes overseas or at a friend's house.
Compare that to Ey
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I still don't get why people would swap those tiny advant
You need CyTV (Score:2)
It's called CyTV. I haven't used it in a few versions, but basically it is/was a remote-viewer application, that would let you view the incoming stream from your EyeTV over a network, and also view the saved recordings and change channels and whatnot. So basically it was like a Slingbox, but also worked as a TV tuner on your computer, and also recorded.
http://www.lucid-cake.net/cytv/index_en.html [lucid-cake.net]
It used to have two pa
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It looks like an oversize bar of baker's chocolate, painted silver, with holes drilled in it.
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Oh, sorry, wrong topic.
Re:Dear god. (Score:4, Funny)
A piece of leather that allows one to hurl stones at high speeds.
2) What is SlingPlayer?
It's a brand new product which is now available on the Mac!
3) What is special about SlingPlayer?
It's NEW!
Re:Dear god Indeed! (Score:4, Informative)
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 [slingmedia.com]
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 [wikipedia.org] 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.
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Next on Slashdot: "Something about Windows Vista, Firefox, and bubble gum. Google it!"
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How disapointing.
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I fail to see the problem in any way. If you want to know, make some effort to educate yourself. My point was was not to illustrate my "mind-bogglingly m
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The criticism was perfectly justified. The article bit.
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Submiter does not take the time to explain the basics of the article: 50 000 slashdotters wasting 2 minutes (since they don't know what it is, need time to search for it, read it, understand it.) Total time wasted: 69 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes.
On the web, a single person being lazy ends up wasting time for thousands of people. Simple enough to understand.
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Everybody knows what a volcano is, or what Google is, or what Windows is. What a SlingPlayer is or is not isn't obvious to most people, and the submitter should have made it more clear.
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Second: Google for it is seldom a good answer. People are social craetures, and it is in are nature to ask our 'tribe' for information. It was much easier to say, "What's over there" to are peers then it is to go see and get eaten by boars.
If the nightly news was intereactive, and they mentioned something the viewers didn't lknow, then YES PEOPLE WOULD ASK.
Shit, I am tired of you anti social assholes giving the rest of us a bad name.
"What's Sling Player?" (Score:4, Informative)
- from Sling Media's site [slingmedia.com], for people like me who just kinda avoid TV, since both summary and article seem to assume you know what it is.
What it is (Score:3, Funny)
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First sling, then (Score:1)
one can dream
VideoLAN (Score:4, Insightful)
Under Linux I use a program called VideoLAN Client to send television (or DVD, AVIs, camera) to other TCP enabled Linux machines. For example, I can use VLC to watch live television on my porch or in my garage over the wireless network. Quality is decent, though don't expect fullscreen DV over a 54Mbit wireless connection. Over the 100Mbit LAN and with a decent server it's pretty decent quality. MythTV also has this functionality.
You can also encode video for iPods if you want to shift your viewing to a a 2" display... I don't understand the appeal of it, but hell, the optometrists need the work.
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A PC capture card relaying over, well, anything, will do a lot better.
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On a LAN, the slingbox video is quite passable. Better than, for example, a TiVo on maximum compression.
Re:VideoLAN (Score:5, Informative)
The slingbox is awesome for $100, but VLC (and one of my favorites, the deprecated VLS [videolan.org]) 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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It's a small feature, but very useful. I hook my Slingbox to my TiVo. Voila, I can watch my TiVo anywhere! (With full control of it too). It also supports cableboxes, so you can use it with digital cable. Or if you're really down, you can use the coax input for analog cable.
So via coax, it's like your VLC setup. But then add in the remote control feature, and the ability to remotely choose between coax, comp
pretty bad (Score:2)
So, what is it? Is the article outdated, or is Sling selling boxes that claim Mac compatibility without actually shipping the software?
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That said, I am using a Slingbox with a PC as I pen this on my other monitor. Its pretty good and the overhea
sad that there's a need for this.... (Score:4, Interesting)
I have some simple scripts that make it easy for me to automatically grab shows from my mythbackend at home, while I'm in my hotel room 12 hops away. I just watch them manually with vlc, laptop plugged into the hotel room's TV, and cellphone as a bluetooth remote... I keep thinking it would be fairly trivial to convince mythtv to do all this seamlessly...
Article is spam (Score:5, Insightful)
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
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Interview Venue (Score:4, Funny)
The guy on the MacBook obviously doesn't use Macs. (Score:4, Interesting)
Better Idea (Score:1)
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This is big deal for sling (mac) people (Score:2, Interesting)
This is really more a kind of thing where Slingmedia showed an early beta of the OS X player (I think at MacWorld in Jan 06!) and the wor
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Isn't that... (Score:1)
And it points to a page full of advertizement. All this mess for a poor product. What a pity.
Anyway, that was my slingshot
Don't give them views or praise. (Score:2)
Where I come from
Sling: Mac Support Devil turned Angel... so far. (Score:1)
Do Not Do Dumb Things to Your Customers [macbizlog.com]
In summary:
Since then, the company has made great strides:
Sling Makes Amends [macbizlog.com]
Communication has improved and they seem commited to releasing a public beta this month.
Let's hope they follow through.