Is it possible to play streaming media under OpenBSD?
Yes, it is. Many audio and video streams will work just fine, on a limited number of platforms. A few of them will not. This is not meant to be a complete, overly detailed answer to have every possible streaming format work on any hardware architecture. You may want to learn more about streaming media to start with. A slightly dated but still good starting point is this chapter about streaming media from the O’Reilly book titled Designing Web Audio. The first thing to understand is that there are a number of different streaming protocols around. The streaming protocol defines how the streams will be sent over the network. They have been developed to allow efficient transmission of audio/video over the internet in real-time. Mostly, the streaming protocol is a (Layer 7) application protocol, which can use either UDP or TCP (Layer 4) transport protocols. The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is very suited for this type of application since it doesn’t do any retransmission of packets or other
