On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:26, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >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 And here, firefox seems to be confused as to where these extra codecs & libraries belong. I have had to first, install them in a new /usr/lib/win32 directory in order to be able to play the .wvm files my children send me from time to time. And today, in checking this message to see if I could play the cnn stuff, it failed, reporting that it couldn't find /usr/local/lib/win32. So I've now made that directory, cd'd to it, and done an lndir /usr/lib/win32 . and cnn's weather is now playing. With an occasional very minor stutter. But, FF goes away when I quit that window, and brings up its crash report form, doing this 100% of the time in 5 attempts now. Linux of course, kernel 2.6.14 final, latest FireFox 1.07. I note that I've saved one .wmv file here, something my kids sent me and that I can play it, and quit it without incident. Only the cnn or possibly net based inputs crash it. Anybody have a good site to double check this with? >> 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 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: http://www.openoffice.org Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
