streaming video

[usleepless at gmail.com]

Chuck,

On Dec 12, 2007 9:22 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:
>
> Danny Pansters wrote:
> > On Monday 10 December 2007 23:33:32 Chuck Robey wrote:
> >> I can't figure out how to get streaming video (as exemplified by the
> >> links on this page: http://countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/elv/public/ ) to
> >> display.  I have buiolt a host of dvd ports, they all seemm to show
> >> dvd's fine, but I can't figure out how to get one of the links on that
> >> page to kick off a program to show stuff.  This isn't flash.  Also, I do
> >> get a popup asking me what to do with this contentm but no matter what
> >> program I gove it (suck as xine, vlc, totem, gxine, or gxanim, others)
> >> nothing displays beyond the program's startup (the one I ca;; just opens
> >>   a window and grins stupidly at me).
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> >
> > rm = realmedia, you can play it with realplayer or with (k)mplayer/xine/... if
> > you have enabled the real codecs for them (possibly also need the win32
> > codecs, they also contain some of older the real codecs IIRC).
> >
> > e.g.
> > cd /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer && make install clean
> >
> > or
> > cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer
> > make config (and enable the real support)
> > make install clean
> >
> > I'm not sure if maybe the java applets on that website intend to embed the
> > video (if that is so, it works poorly I reckon ;-)
> >
>
> No, you misunderstood me, I have the tools, I just can't seem ever to
> get them to work, when initiated from Seamonkey'spopup which asks me how
> to handle it.  I know that setting the correct mime type would help (and
> that info would be of use) but that's why I gave the sample video url,
> so folks could tell me why I can't just kick off (for example) either
> xine or maybe totem.  Nothing works -- I mean, the windows of the
> executable I am calling open up, but no video appears, even if I wait a
> while for download (and I have quite a lot of bandwidth).
>
> I don't need the toolnames, I need to figure out how to get them to work
> with the browser.

you need to install mplayer-plugin ( /usr/ports/www/mplayer-plugin ).

nasa works for me ( firefox + mplayer-plugin )

regards,

usleep