Just wanted post this since I ran into the issue today.
We had an Encore member who came to desk wanting to watch the streaming video of the ceremony where the Dalai Lama was receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor this afternoon. She was logged in on a SunRay at first, which has no capability to play any type of audio file, as far as I could tell. We tried calling up to the Media Center, but they said she'd need a Unity ID to use the computers there. Since she couldn't log into any of the PCs (could she?) without a Unity ID, I finally had her use a GIS workstation that had Windows Media Player installed. We actually had to do some searching to find a link to the streaming video designed for Windows Media Player, rather than RealPlayer, since RealPlayer isn't available on those machines.
All that to say...is there a better solution? I think using the web increasingly means using audio and video files, so I wonder if there's a way we could make this easier for our affiliated patrons.
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You can also log them into the multimedia machine in the west wing. We've actually been looking into the audio and video capabilities of the SunRays and seeing if there is a possible solution with those machines.
cool. I hadn't thought of that. tend to forget what's in the west wing. it would be great to have basic audio video capabilities on the SunRays.
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