On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 08:26 -0600, 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 > Do you have mplayer installed in /usr/local or /usr? I suspect that you compiled mplayer and installed it in /usr/local. If so it will look for the libraries there as well. > > 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. > >
