graphics/video stuff (again)..
Ted Gervais
ve1drg at av.eastlink.ca
Sun Dec 10 19:17:58 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 18:22 +0100, Tanguy Eric wrote:
> Le dimanche 10 décembre 2006 à 16:57 +0000, Amadeus W. M. a écrit :
> > 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.
> >
>
> I have the same problem : viewing these videos with mplayer-plugin in
> firefox leads to see connected or connecting to the server ... but no
> videos. If i right click to the mplayer-plugin window and copy the url i
> can go to a terminal and launch mplayer and copy the url and i can view
> the video without any problem so i think the problem is related to the
> mplayer-plugin.
>
> Eric
This is certainly strange. I can run mplayer at a prompt and I can
bring up the url that gives us the video from CNN. So, something is
wrong somewhere which I think it has to be with how mozilla works?
Maybe we need to tell mozilla what to do??
>
>
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Ted Gervais
2381 Loretta Ave.,
Coldbrook Nova Scotia
Canada b4r 1a7
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