From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 08:44:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CE016A50A for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 08:44:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB91213C45B for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 08:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l068iZKF087517; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l068iS4F087516; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:44:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:44:28 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Chris Hill Message-ID: <20070106084428.GB87425@thought.org> References: <20070105083708.GA79194@thought.org> <20070105205357.E47346@tripel.monochrome.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070105205357.E47346@tripel.monochrome.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: streaming video (at 144kbps)? 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: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:44:37 -0000 On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:02:25PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Any ideas how///what tools to use to watch PBS streams? > > Nothing/zip works with [linux-] firefox plus the flashplugin7 > > and mplayer. > > I'm able to watch PBS video clips using mplayer-plugin under native > firefox on 5.5-R. I don't know about streams, because I couldn't find > one after a cursory look through http://www.pbs.org/. Can you post a URL > for something you are unable to watch? It may also be helpful to know > what versions of everything that you are using (you know the drill). > I thoughtthey were "streams." *BZZT* Video clips is more likely. When I click on the Windows row of options, nothing happens. My router is not flashing, so nothing is coming across. Sounds like a misconfiguration problem because I've rarely gotten mplayer to work, even with windows audio. Suggestions?? I was aiming at the "Wired" Sci-Tech series... that I missed :-( gary > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix