On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 18:22 +0100, Tanguy Eric wrote: > Le dimanche 10 décembre 2006 à 16:57 +0000, Amadeus W. M. a écrit : > > 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. > > > > I have the same problem : viewing these videos with mplayer-plugin in > firefox leads to see connected or connecting to the server ... but no > videos. If i right click to the mplayer-plugin window and copy the url i > can go to a terminal and launch mplayer and copy the url and i can view > the video without any problem so i think the problem is related to the > mplayer-plugin. > > Eric This is certainly strange. I can run mplayer at a prompt and I can bring up the url that gives us the video from CNN. So, something is wrong somewhere which I think it has to be with how mozilla works? Maybe we need to tell mozilla what to do?? > > -- Ted Gervais 2381 Loretta Ave., Coldbrook Nova Scotia Canada b4r 1a7
