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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