On 09/25/2010 01:58 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 25/09/10 16:05, JD wrote: >> On 09/25/2010 12:48 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> On 25/09/10 15:10, JD wrote: >>>> VLC video window is integrated into the control gui and thus >>>> cannot be scaled down to the size that you can with mplayer >>>> view window. >>>> Now.... >>>> what small corner window? >>>> Moving anything on the screen only takes that >>>> you click and hold on the title bar and then drag it to any >>>> position on the screen and release. How hard can that be? >>>> >>> VLC is quite happy to display the videos as is Firefox, both ask for >>> user and password and just work! >>> >>> By mplayer I assume you mean totem >> NO! >> Totem is NOT mplayer. >> mplayer-1.0-0.117.20100703svn.fc13.i686 >> totem-2.30.2-1.fc13.i686 > Ok, yum installed mplayer and the GUI too. It appears to accept the > camera user and password but it doesn't seem able to decode the > mjpeg video? The screen goes to black as though it is starting but > then it reverts to a splash screen with a play button and does > nothing after that. > > I will spend some more time investigating mplayer. The ability to > put the user and password in the start command is a definite > convenience, if only it can be made to display the video. > > Thanks for the help. > > Bob > > So, you are missing the coddec, and I would venture to say probably missing a lot of other codecs. I do not know which fedora package provides the codecs. The authors of mplayer provide these codecs at: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
