On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:18:36 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > I have been slaving away here trying to get video stuff working in Mozilla > with fc6. I read all I could read about totem and mplayer etc., and > installed everything I could get my hands on. But still no video from > www.cnn.com web pages. I like to watch those video news shots that they > have there, and so far no luck. > > And than, I switched browsers. I brought up konqueror and bingo. I have > great video on all those video scenes that www.cnn.com > provides.. Wow. Really nice. > So I went back to Mozilla and I don't get any video but I do get a message > saying "no picture". But I have the audio just fine. And also something > else - I no longer get that 'totem' message that says something about totem > not being able to find the 'mms' driver to play this video. > > So, I have made some progress but I was wondering how close I am to getting > Mozilla to work like Konqueror? I think I am close but what more do I need > to do to get mozilla working like konqueror.?? > > Thanks.. > > --- > Ted Gervais, > Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada > Can you play the cnn videos directly with mplayer at the prompt? Open a shell, and firefox. Try to play a cnn video from within firefox, while at the prompt do a ps auxfwww | grep mplayer You should see something like mplayer -wid 0x3a045de -vf scale=468:-3 -osdlevel 0 -nojoystick -noconsolecontrols -cookies -slave -user-agent NSPlayer -nomouseinput -cache 512 mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com.edgestreams.net/cnn/tech/2006/12/10/zarrella.shuttle.launch.CNN.ws.wmv You can then stop the clip in firefox. Try then at the prompt mplayer mms://wmscnn...... You will see eventual warnings and errors that mplayer produces, and then you may be able to figure out what's wrong. By the way, if you run mplayer -dumpstream mms://url you can download whatever mplayer is playing.
