Robin Laing wrote: | Claude Jones wrote: || On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote: || ||| On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ||| |||| The link was similar to this. |||| |||| mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv ||| ||| Try opening the link in a video player like totem. || || || That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media || codecs. Try the mplayer site for more info on how to get that || working | | First, honest mistake, not all Robins are girls. My wife would | be in for a shock. :) Of course I know a few and I still get | mail addressed to Ms. Mrs. etc. | .......snip | I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer | by using the url. It didn't want to work. I will play with it | some more. | -- | Robin Laing Sorry bout that, Robin - I've had indifferent success with mplayer and the codecs, but I have gotten them to work. The results can be a bit frustrating because they don't always work - suppose it's version dependent or something. I've always done it in conjunction with Kaffeine, but that's not the only way, according to what I've read. Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc./WTVS Leesburg, VA, USA
