On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 16:57 +0000, Amadeus W. M. wrote: > 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...... I just had a look using ps auxfwww | grep mplayer and I don't see anything about mplayer at all??? That was with Mozilla running. And I don;t see it with konqueror either but the video works in konqueror just fine.?? BUT!! I just copied your line you have above using mms:// etc etc and I ran that using mplayer and it worked fine!! So - what gives? Mplayer is working. But mozilla is not calling it? Or something like that. If it works at the command line than I am missing something with mozilla???? > > 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. > -- Ted Gervais 2381 Loretta Ave., Coldbrook Nova Scotia Canada b4r 1a7
