On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:26:43 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > That's your problem right there. Mplayer uses some dlls from windows (more or less) to play windows multimedia. To convince yourself, search for and download a .wmv file. Then run mplayer file.wmv at the prompt, and see what it tells you. Get the windows codecs from the mplayer page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html Mplayer looks for them in /usr/lib/win32 or /usr/local/lib/win32. I put them in /usr/local/lib/win32 because my /usr/local is a separate partition, which I don't reformat upon reinstalling FC. I must have had the win32 codecs since FC1.
