graphics/video stuff (again)..
Amadeus W. M.
amadeus84 at verizon.net
Sun Dec 10 16:57:33 UTC 2006
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:18:36 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> I have been slaving away here trying to get video stuff working in Mozilla
> with fc6. I read all I could read about totem and mplayer etc., and
> installed everything I could get my hands on. But still no video from
> www.cnn.com web pages. I like to watch those video news shots that they
> have there, and so far no luck.
>
> And than, I switched browsers. I brought up konqueror and bingo. I have
> great video on all those video scenes that www.cnn.com
> provides.. Wow. Really nice.
> So I went back to Mozilla and I don't get any video but I do get a message
> saying "no picture". But I have the audio just fine. And also something
> else - I no longer get that 'totem' message that says something about totem
> not being able to find the 'mms' driver to play this video.
>
> So, I have made some progress but I was wondering how close I am to getting
> Mozilla to work like Konqueror? I think I am close but what more do I need
> to do to get mozilla working like konqueror.??
>
> Thanks..
>
> ---
> Ted Gervais,
> Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada
>
Can you play the cnn videos directly with mplayer at the prompt?
Open a shell, and firefox. Try to play a cnn video from within firefox,
while at the prompt do a
ps auxfwww | grep mplayer
You should see something like
mplayer -wid 0x3a045de -vf scale=468:-3 -osdlevel 0 -nojoystick -noconsolecontrols -cookies -slave -user-agent NSPlayer -nomouseinput -cache 512 mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com.edgestreams.net/cnn/tech/2006/12/10/zarrella.shuttle.launch.CNN.ws.wmv
You can then stop the clip in firefox. Try then at the prompt
mplayer mms://wmscnn......
You will see eventual warnings and errors that mplayer produces, and then
you may be able to figure out what's wrong.
By the way, if you run mplayer -dumpstream mms://url you can download
whatever mplayer is playing.
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