On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:03:48PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > 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 - What is interesting is that I can't see any of the CNN videos unless I put the codecs in /usr/local/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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ======================================================================= "Absolutely nothing should be concluded from these figures except that no conclusion can be drawn from them." (By Joseph L. Brothers, Linux/PowerPC Project) ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
