streaming video

[Chuck Robey]

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.

> HTH,
> 
> Dan
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