streaming video

[Chuck Robey]

usleepless at gmail.com wrote:
> 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 )

Well, that's one way to do it, but AGAIN it isnt' answering my question. 
  Look, when I get a pdf file, I tell it to kick off xpdf, not 
"xpdf.plugin" and when the popup asks me how to handle it, I say to use 
xpdf, and it works fine.  I want to get the equivalent behavior for 
video.  The plugin info is nice, but not what I'm shooting for.  Can you 
see what I'm going for here?