You'll need 1) a Web browser, 2) access to the World Wide Web, and 3) "viewers" for your browser. All the vendors here are providing their basic client software for free.
WHITE PINE SOFTWARE'S CUSEEME
Download the viewer (for Mac or Power Macintosh or 486 PC with Windows) from
http://www.wpine.com
. Check out live camera feeds from Cornell University (the CU of CUSeeMe), Kent State, NASA, and White Pine itself. Internet addresses are contained in the software.
VOCALTEC'S INTERNET WAVE
Download the viewer (for 486 PC with Windows, Win 95, or NT) from
http://www.vocaltec.com/iwave.htm
. Then you can check out some tunes and news.
Home page for
the band I Forget
:
http://www.sarabande.com/iforget/iwave/cant.htm
Blues music:
http://www.adtek.com/audio/
KOL Isr
ael news from Jerusalem in English and Hebrew:
http://www.artificia.com/html/news.htm
African djimbe drums:
http://www.huntana.com/montana/iwave_drum.html
PROGRESSIVE NETWORKS' REALAUDIO
Download the viewer (for Macintosh or Power Macintosh or 486 PC with Windows) from
http://www.RealAudio.com
. Then you can check ou
t sports and news.
Sound clips from ESPN:
http://espnet.sportszone.com
:80/editors/studios/
ABC Radio news:
http://www.abcradionet.com
National Public Radio
news:
http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/npr.html
National Football League highlights:
http://www.RealAudio.com/contentp/rabest/cbsnfl.html
XING TECHNOLOGY'S STREAMWORKS
Download the viewer (for Mac or Power Mac or 486 with Windows) from
http://www.xingtech.com
. Then you can check out Ottawa's CFRA radio station, Taiwanese folk music, KWBR radio in California, and NBC's live video feed (all the addresses are included in StreamWorks).
VDONET'S VDOLIVE
Decently paced inline streaming video over even slow (9600-bps) modems. Go to
http://www.vdolive.com
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http://www.vdolive
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