launchcast

[Mark]

more info on my own request:

found this perl script on hacks.oreilly.com, but no joy

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Written by badfugu - October 2003
# I do claim some ownership, but please distribute freely.

require LWP::UserAgent;
require HTTP::Request;
require HTTP::Response;

# Get video ID from input
my $vid_id = $ARGV[0];
print "Video ID: $vid_id\n";
($vid_id <= 0) and die "Invalid video ID!\n";

# Build the first URL
my $pri_url_head =
"http://launchtoday.launch.yahoo.com/player/showasx.asp?cid=1&pid=4&csid=396500550&sx=g%2F4.xml&sgm=1&vid=";
my $pri_url_tail =
"&bw=300&pv=6&bp=Windows%209x&uid=1486187332&uguid=8bodoh10e6o4n&im=0&pls=&asp=&fcv=&z=y.asx";
my $pri_url = $pri_url_head . $vid_id . $pri_url_tail;

# Attempt to fetch the playlist (asx) from that URL
print "Attempting to fetch from showasx.asp...\n";
my %options = ( agent => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)' );
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( %options );
my $request = new HTTP::Request 'GET', $pri_url;
my $response = $ua->request($request);
if (!($response->is_success)) {
die "Could not fetch!\n";
}

# Extract second url from response
my $sec_url = "";
if ($response->content =~ /(http:.+medialog.+$vid_id.+asx)/) {
$sec_url = "$1";
} else {
die "Could not extract medialog.asp url!\n";
}

# Attempt to fetch the next playlist from the secondary URL
print "Attempting to fetch from medialog.asp...\n";
my $mkpl_url = "";
$request->url($sec_url);
$response = $ua->request($request);
if (!($response->is_success)) {
die "Could not fetch!\n";
} else {
$mkpl_url = $response->content;
}

# Attempt to fetch the media stream URL
print "Attempting to fetch from makeplaylist.dll...\n";
$request->url($mkpl_url);
$response = $ua->request($request);
if (!($response->is_success)) {
die "Could not fetch!\n";
} else {
$mms_url = $response->content;
}

# Play that stream!!!
system("mplayer -bandwidth 99999999 $mms_url");

# eof

###########################################################

This being the error msg :
Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4 .) at ./launch.pl line 5.

Are PAN mods not loaded with the perl5.8? or is this something diff??