Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:39:25 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: usleepless@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: streaming video Message-ID: <4760550D.8080204@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <c39ec84c0712121307t1d8f1748v24a759803e9ab547@mail.gmail.com> References: <475DBEBC.1060805@chuckr.org> <200712110013.16343.danny@ricin.com> <476042F2.7040707@chuckr.org> <c39ec84c0712121307t1d8f1748v24a759803e9ab547@mail.gmail.com>
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usleepless@gmail.com wrote: > Chuck, > > On Dec 12, 2007 9:22 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: >> Danny Pansters wrote: >>> On Monday 10 December 2007 23:33:32 Chuck Robey wrote: >>>> I can't figure out how to get streaming video (as exemplified by the >>>> links on this page: http://countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/elv/public/ ) to >>>> display. I have buiolt a host of dvd ports, they all seemm to show >>>> dvd's fine, but I can't figure out how to get one of the links on that >>>> page to kick off a program to show stuff. This isn't flash. Also, I do >>>> get a popup asking me what to do with this contentm but no matter what >>>> program I gove it (suck as xine, vlc, totem, gxine, or gxanim, others) >>>> nothing displays beyond the program's startup (the one I ca;; just opens >>>> a window and grins stupidly at me). >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>> "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> rm = realmedia, you can play it with realplayer or with (k)mplayer/xine/... if >>> you have enabled the real codecs for them (possibly also need the win32 >>> codecs, they also contain some of older the real codecs IIRC). >>> >>> e.g. >>> cd /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer && make install clean >>> >>> or >>> cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer >>> make config (and enable the real support) >>> make install clean >>> >>> I'm not sure if maybe the java applets on that website intend to embed the >>> video (if that is so, it works poorly I reckon ;-) >>> >> No, you misunderstood me, I have the tools, I just can't seem ever to >> get them to work, when initiated from Seamonkey'spopup which asks me how >> to handle it. I know that setting the correct mime type would help (and >> that info would be of use) but that's why I gave the sample video url, >> so folks could tell me why I can't just kick off (for example) either >> xine or maybe totem. Nothing works -- I mean, the windows of the >> executable I am calling open up, but no video appears, even if I wait a >> while for download (and I have quite a lot of bandwidth). >> >> I don't need the toolnames, I need to figure out how to get them to work >> with the browser. > > you need to install mplayer-plugin ( /usr/ports/www/mplayer-plugin ). > > nasa works for me ( firefox + mplayer-plugin ) Well, that's one way to do it, but AGAIN it isnt' answering my question. Look, when I get a pdf file, I tell it to kick off xpdf, not "xpdf.plugin" and when the popup asks me how to handle it, I say to use xpdf, and it works fine. I want to get the equivalent behavior for video. The plugin info is nice, but not what I'm shooting for. Can you see what I'm going for here?home | help
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