mplayer play web wmv video

[oldman]

Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22/09/06, *Claude Jones* <claude_jones at levitjames.com
> <mailto:claude_jones at levitjames.com>> 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
>     <http://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
> 
> 
> 
> my settings are:
> mplayerplug-in-3.31-1.lvn5
> xmmplayer-0.3.3-5.lvn5
> mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.lvn5
> mplayer-gui-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5
> mplayer-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5
> 
> it works with clips at
> http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/footage52_4.html
> <http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/footage52_4.html>
> but not with
> http://media.smh.com.au/?sy=smh&category=bulletin&rid=22122&source=smh.com.au%2F&t=24G8UJ&player=wm6&rate=354&flash=0&ie=0
> <http://media.smh.com.au/?sy=smh&category=bulletin&rid=22122&source=smh.com.au%2F&t=24G8UJ&player=wm6&rate=354&flash=0&ie=0>
> 
> 
I was able to view your second group, though I had to hit the start
button six times before it finally played

Scott