From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 13:39:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E282D16A41F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:39:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD2643D45 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:39:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA4ACD11A4 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:39:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:39:20 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: EJ/spg+KBuj5zbtQvAhWNDNK8pLgeZhnZjXVl4M6HXTc 1128692360 Received: from merkur (host-66-202-74-42.choiceone.net [66.202.74.42]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417F05703B5 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:39:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by merkur (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 willmaier@ml1.net; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:39:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:39:26 -0500 From: Will Maier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051007133926.GJ32312@localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4345AB42.3010105@wanadoo.fr> <200510071054.36606.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> <20051007121045.5ea93c43@apircalabu.dsd.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051007121045.5ea93c43@apircalabu.dsd.ro> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: Playing Flash and video media in Firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:39:23 -0000 On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:10:45PM +0300, Adi Pircalabu wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:14:38 +0400 > "Andrew P." wrote: > > Still, I haven't figured out how to watch webcasts from some > > stupid sites that try to detect whether you have WMP installed. > Some sites are extremely broken, indeed. For example, I can't see > the videos from uefa.com, they simply refuse to deliver me the > content on either FreeBSD, SuSE and Ubuntu. A little grepping around in the sites' HTML usually (not always) allows you to figure out what file is actually being loaded. Once you know that, it's simple to stream it in eg Mplayer. I needed to do this to watch film trailers at Apple.com or stream soccer games from mls.com. $ curl http://the.site.com | grep '\.\(rm\|wmv\|mov\)' -- o--------------------------{ Will Maier }--------------------------o | jabber:..wcmaier@jabber.ccc.de | email:..........wcmaier@ml1.net | | \.........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | \..........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | *------------------[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]------------------*