On Monday 04 December 2006 15:11, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:22:04 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 04 December 2006 10:50, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >>>On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:13:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> On Monday 04 December 2006 00:58, Ric Moore wrote: >>>>>On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:25 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Craig White wrote: >>>>>> > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>>> >> Greetings all; >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> What can I replace totem with that will work? >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages >>>>>> >> that do not tell you what it can't play. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > ---- >>>>>> > you mean kind of like the vague information that I see here? >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Just taking a wild ass guess at your problem, I would guess that >>>>>> > you need to install an unlicensed version of libdvdcss so you >>>>>> > can decrypt encrypted commercial DVD movies. >>>>>> >>>>>> Oh, it takes *far* more than that. Totem as shipped in FC is a >>>>>> broken piece of garbage that attempts to play everything - and can >>>>>> actually play almost nothing. It achieves the remarkable status of >>>>>> actually being *worse* than nothing at all. >>>>> >>>>>I use xine from livna and install all it's extras as "yum -y >>>>>--enablerepo livna install xine*" should get you all the goodies for >>>>> Dvd playback. Otherwise, mplayer. Ric >>>> >>>> I wasn't specifically trying to play a dvd, I'm just trying to get >>>> weblinks to play. ISTR the only video I've seen play here came from >>>> youtube, crappy stuff generally. Not even 8mm movie quality. But >>>> then you may not ever remember seeing one of those, being a >>>> youngster & all that. :-) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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) >>>> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >>>> message by Gene Heskett are: >>>> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. >>> >>>For youtube and google video you need the flash player. For things >>> like CNN, mplayer works beautifully. The nice thing about mplayer is >>> that it can pretend to be the windows mplayer, so you can view with >>> it (some/most) video from sites that wouldn't let you view their >>> media unless you were in windows. Maybe other players can do that >>> too, I don't know. >> >> I seem to be in deeper do-do than that, this site causes ff to exit; >> <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061130-meteorite.html >>> Then click on one of the movies, ff goes away. No reported error. > >Strange, mine works flawlessly, better than cnn. That is, mplayer plays >the videos embedded in firefox (1.5x). > >Do this: > >Hover the mouse over the link with the clip to see the url at the bottom >of firefox. Then run mplayer directly: > >mplayer http://news.nationalgeographic... > >Does that work? I finally found a site that had direct links, most of them are wrapped in a wagonload of html. Its only about 1 second long and has .gif, .wmv and .m1a formats available. The gif plays, the .m1a plays but the .wmv takes mplayer down. With no errors, it just quits. One of the other players, kaffeine, reports that a .dll file is missing from the codecs available. But it otherwise sticks around as opposed to going away silently. But FF itself, if you click on any of the 3 links, is gone in 30 milliseconds or less. -- 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) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
