Linux killer!
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Oct 30 16:08:41 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 08:26 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:03:48PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Sat October 29 2005 9:41 am, Andy Pieters wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I don't know about 'live" but I can watch to streaming video news,
> > > streaming audio radio, wmv files, asx, asf and the likes, mpeg, mp3,
> > > basically everything I throw at it it can handle (xine), with the exception
> > > being windows encrypted media files. (DRM)
> > >
> >
> > Hello Andy: You got me to revisit this. I'd never personally tested my
> > installation on a live stream. I'd only heard that it wouldn't work (I read
> > it on an internet list, it must have been true ;-) The news feeds I know of,
> > like CNN, are not live feeds, but little prepared spots - you can tell
> > because they always play from the beginning to the end. But I went to
> > vivalavoce.com which is a live streaming radio station and selected broadband
> > WM, and it played - I'll have to find some live streaming WM video streams
> > now, but, this is pretty hopeful.
> > My recipe was pretty simple. I installed mplayer, mplayerplug-in, mplayer-gui,
> > some skins, and the all-codecs package from the mplayer site. As I recall, I
> > used Synaptic and the atrpms repo to install the software, and I downloaded
> > the codecs directly from mplayer's site and unpacked them in /usr/lib/win32 -
> What is interesting is that I can't see any of the CNN videos unless I
> put the codecs in /usr/local/lib/win32
>
Do you have mplayer installed in /usr/local or /usr?
I suspect that you compiled mplayer and installed it in /usr/local. If
so it will look for the libraries there as well.
> > that's all there was to it. I've done this on multiple FC4 boxes and on half
> > a dozen MEPIS Linux boxes now. MEPIS is a Debian derivative, and the Debian
> > repos have those packages, as well.
> > So, to the original poster, it looks like you get pretty full WM play
> > functionality with a very simple install - once you've done it once, it
> > shouldn't take you more than a few minutes per machine.
> >
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