web multimedia procols.
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Jun 2 15:44:21 UTC 2005
Claude Jones wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
> | Claude Jones wrote:
> || On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote:
> ||
> ||| On 5/31/05, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> |||
> |||| The link was similar to this.
> ||||
> |||| mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv
> |||
> ||| Try opening the link in a video player like totem.
> ||
> ||
> || That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media
> || codecs. Try the mplayer site for more info on how to get that
> || working
> |
> | First, honest mistake, not all Robins are girls. My wife would
> | be in for a shock. :) Of course I know a few and I still get
> | mail addressed to Ms. Mrs. etc.
> | .......snip
> | I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer
> | by using the url. It didn't want to work. I will play with it
> | some more.
> | --
> | Robin Laing
>
> Sorry bout that, Robin - I've had indifferent success with mplayer
> and the codecs, but I have gotten them to work. The results can be
> a bit frustrating because they don't always work - suppose it's
> version dependent or something. I've always done it in conjunction
> with Kaffeine, but that's not the only way, according to what I've
> read.
>
> Claude Jones
> Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
> Leesburg, VA, USA
>
>
I work with video at home and work and have mostly great success with
mplayer. The only issue I have had is with damaged files that won't
play. The files will in many cases play in xine though.
I am going to try to with a (yuck) windows machine to see if there is
a firewall issue on the corporate network or server side restrictions.
--
Robin Laing
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