Windows Media players

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Claude Jones wrote:
> Saving to disk is not really an option, as I'm checking files that are 3
> hours in length, and saving is not necessary for what I need to do,
> which is fast verification that files are present, and playable (this is
> related to my work). I hadn't really thought about the difference
> between plugin and play-in-own-window -- now that you mention it, it's
> obvious. At one point, I did get to that option in this process, but I
> couldn't figure out how to specify mplayer or kplayer, or Kaffeine, or
> whatever. Typing the program name in the dialogue gave me an
> unrecognized program response, and when I tried to browse to the
> program, I couldn't figure out where to find the programs. Thanks for
> your patience in this matter.

doesn't mplayer allow for playing streams?  i would think the best approach
is to setup your browser to not use a plugin, but rather launch mplayer
externally and give it the url of the stream.  i've never had any success
with browser plugins to play media off the web.

also, if you want all the controls and stuff, you want to run gmplayer (the
gui front end to mplayer).  its a seperate rpm install from mplayer.

kinda off topic, but mplayer-1.0-preX sucks for me.  it always crashes
playing mpeg files (saying it crashed in some decode function). 
mplayer-0.93 plays everything like a dream for me.  compiling from source
is actually easier than installing from rpm also i've found.

hey, can you post the links to the videos in question?  i want to see if i
can setup my rig to play them the way you want with mplayer.  if i get it
working, i'll post instructions.  as of now, my rig is setup to just
download the entire video, then launch gmplayer to play it locally.  i've
never really tried to play streaming media with it though.