On Sat October 29 2005 9:41 am, Andy Pieters wrote: > Hi > > I don't know about 'live" but I can watch to streaming video news, > streaming audio radio, wmv files, asx, asf and the likes, mpeg, mp3, > basically everything I throw at it it can handle (xine), with the exception > being windows encrypted media files. (DRM) > Hello Andy: You got me to revisit this. I'd never personally tested my installation on a live stream. I'd only heard that it wouldn't work (I read it on an internet list, it must have been true ;-) The news feeds I know of, like CNN, are not live feeds, but little prepared spots - you can tell because they always play from the beginning to the end. But I went to vivalavoce.com which is a live streaming radio station and selected broadband WM, and it played - I'll have to find some live streaming WM video streams now, but, this is pretty hopeful. My recipe was pretty simple. I installed mplayer, mplayerplug-in, mplayer-gui, some skins, and the all-codecs package from the mplayer site. As I recall, I used Synaptic and the atrpms repo to install the software, and I downloaded the codecs directly from mplayer's site and unpacked them in /usr/lib/win32 - that's all there was to it. I've done this on multiple FC4 boxes and on half a dozen MEPIS Linux boxes now. MEPIS is a Debian derivative, and the Debian repos have those packages, as well. So, to the original poster, it looks like you get pretty full WM play functionality with a very simple install - once you've done it once, it shouldn't take you more than a few minutes per machine. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
