On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:22:41 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > I am sure that mms stuff and totem have been discussed before but can't > seem to find anything in the archives that specifically concerns my > interest. I wish there was a way to search the fedora archives so it > would be easier to find what you are looking for?? (Is there a way??). > Download the archives, unpack them and grep for "totem". Just a couple of days ago though there was a thread on the same topic. > Now my question is this: > > otem could not play > 'mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com.edgestreams.net/cnn/world/2006/12/07/eccleston.uk.spy.funeral.affl.ws.wmv'. > > Has anyone been successful with FC6 to be able to view the video streams > found on CNN. Yes. Not with totem though. Install mplayer and mplayerplug-in from livna, then install the windows codecs from http://www.mplayerhq.hu and put them in /usr/local/lib/win32. Any video format has its own codecs i.e. a piece of software that codes/decodes the information specific to that format. The wmv format is a windows multimedia format. Mplayer does some wizardry and calls some windows dlls (more or less) to play wmv.
