On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:52:19AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:53 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:44:17AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:34 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > Someone decided to have TV channels delivered to people on campus > > > > through the internet to be viewed on computer screens. > > > > In Windows this seems to be pretty automatic. The web site opens and > > > > loads plugins for the mp4 and mp2 TV signals. > > > > > > > > Now my mystery is how to do this in Linux. Any advice out there? > > > ---- > > > do you have mplayer installed? > > > > > > on my FC-3 system (at means Axel Thimm's repo) > > > > > > # rpm -qa|grep mplayer > > > mplayer-1.0-36_pre5.rhfc3.at > > > mplayer-fonts-1.0-6.at > > > mplayer-skins-1.0-pre3_12.at > > > mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.1.at > > > mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.1.fc3.rf > > > > > > Craig > > > > > I have the following installed and mplayer works but the tv does not. > > mplayer-1.0-0.lvn.o26.pre7try2.4 > > mplayer-fonts-1.1.0.lvn.3.4 > > mplayerplug-in-2.80.0.lvn.1.4 > > w32codec-1.0_20041107-11.at > > > > Which is one combination of mplayer that works on CNN video for > > example but not on tv. I can try to install the skin and skins rpms if > > you think that would help. > ---- > I believe that the skins are what make it a standalone player (not a > plug-in in firefox for example) > > Normally, when you browse to a page that would open a stream, it would > search for a mime-type and that would be the clue as to how to handle > it. I presume that you open a browser and connect to a specific link - > you probably need to give us more details of what is happening and where > things stop working - and I would suggest on fedora-list since there are > people who are a lot more knowledgeable than I on this stuff. > > Craig This post is too long but let me briefly explain. First the broadcast stream if retrieved from a Windows server which in turn retrieves it from a Linux server. It is stated by the producer of the distribution software that it works in IE (Windows) and Safari (OS/X). They say flatly that it does not work with firefox and I am trying to find out why. (By the way where do you find the skins rpm? Everywhere I found it it would not download). I am always mystified how you add a plugin or expand the extensions for a file type like video/mpeg. Anyway mplayer works on a variety of video file types by mp2 and mp4 are not among them. So I would like to add them. I tried by changing the pluginreg.dat and the mimeTypes.rdf files but to no avail. The video files are not recognized. Any further ideas out there. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
