mplayer play web wmv video
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Sep 22 13:43:37 UTC 2006
Claude Jones wrote:
> On Friday September 22 2006 2:58 am, Ric Moore wrote:
>
>>>>any help?
>>>>
>>>>Yuandan
>>>
>>>Yeah, I get the same thing.
>>>It just stops. If I click the play button, it loads the media again,
>>>and then stops,
>>>again.
>>>
>>>tony
>>
>>Mine plays, after it blinks once and blanks, but I get an error that says:
>>Can't resolve name for AF_INET6: win-media.f2.com.au
>>
>>I get a message like that every time I browse wmv files lately.
>
>
> Well, guys, I wish I could be of more help, but, in tests just now, I tried
> all the examples just cited in this thread and they all work on my machine.
> I've posted extensively on the list over the past months about problems with
> mplayer/mplayerplug-in but, for now, I've got it all working, and working
> quite well.
>
> The following command results in:
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep mplayer
> mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.lvn5
> mplayerplug-in-3.31-1.lvn5
> mplayer-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5
> kmplayer-0.9.2-2.a.fc5
>
> As you can see, all my packages are now the current ones from Livna with the
> exception of kmplayer - kmplayer also works, I noticed the other day, though
> I can't remember how I invoked it, though I'm guessing it was from within
> Konqueror... I tried all the mime types on the
> http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html page, including the ones from
> Linspire, and also the link to the site in Australia
>
> All I can offer is that there is hope...
>
>
Mine plays in FC4 but the video is green. I think it is time to update
codecs for me.
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Robin Laing
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