Getting Fox News to work with Firefox

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 15:06:13 UTC 2007


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Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 16:31 -0800, David Boles wrote:
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>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> On 22/01/07, David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Before you do that you should know that both Fox and CNN videos are
>>>> made for
>>>> Windows Media Player display. I seriously doubt they they will be able
>>>> to do
>>>> anything to help you.
>>>>
>>> That's exactly the reason that I write to them. If they are made for
>>> Windows Media, then they are repelling Linux and Mac customers. They
>>> just might not realize that. Or, they might think that there are not
>>> enough Linux users to cater to them. Let them know that they are
>>> wrong.
>> I would think that if you look hard enough you could find a native Linux
>> player and win32 codecs to do this with out writing CNN of FOX.
>>
>> If I was you I might start looking for a solution to my problem here:
>> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
> It is already known that by knowing the trick you can do it bu7t why do
> we have to search for a trick . Why can't the capability just come with
> Fedora with a standard mplayer? It is it a secret that people want to
> access these sites. That should be a part of testing.

Hi Aaron

What 'tricks', as you called them, does to take to make this work requires
proprietary, non Open Source Software. Fedora does not package and excludes
non OSS.

If you had forgotten that did not know that ask about it here and I am sure
that someone will point you to a link or an email to one of the many times,
hundreds perhaps, of times that has been explained. Search the archives for
Nvidia. ATI. Things like that.

BTW If you really do want to ask your question I would suggest a completely
new thread for it. If you stick it in this one or just change the subject,
which does the same thing, it could just be lost in the traffic as this thread
eventually will spin off to something completely OT.
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  David
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