(Solved) Watching Windows Media at Radio-Canada

[Bill Davidsen]

gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> See "Solution" farther for the solution without comments.
> 
> In Canada, it's a too well know bad joke: anybody not using Microsoft
> products cannot access easily the features of Radio-Canada, all in Windows
> Media Video. Stupid politicians won't budge. North America now produces
> next to nothing, except natural ressources in Canada and the Microsoft
> serfdom tax on computer users is a way of bringing in foreign currencies.
> 
> Recently, I could access the features using MPlayer and
> MediaPlayerConnectivity, but URLs often had to be copied and edited.
> Imagine my surprize when I could access all features, including RDI online
> (RDI en direct) after removing Totem and simply installing Mplayer through
> the graphic interface (Pirut)!
> 
> It works! For how long is another question. As long as Microsoft doesn't
> change the server settings, I suppose.
> 
> "Solution":
> 
> Through the graphic interface (Pirut):
> 
> 1) Remove Totem. (If anybody managed to read wmv at Radio-Canada with
> Totem, please explain. I never could.)
> 
> 2) Do not remove gstreamer, except what directly relates to Totem.
> 
> 3) Install pretty much all pertaining to Mplayer. Probably only Mplayer,
> the codecs and the Mozilla plugin are necessary, but if you have enough
> disk space, suit yourself.
> 
> 4) The volume control provided by Radio-Canada/Microsoft doesn't work. (It
> must be Silverlight and Red Hat righly refuses to use Moonlight, the free
> version of Silverlight.) If you touch this volume control, it shuts off
> the sound. As the buffer is filling, right click on the image, choose [C]
> for Console and adjust the volume there.
> 
> Note that this is absolutely no solution to the state television using
> proprietary formats. Political pressure must be exercised.
> 
Did you try vlc?

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