<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Marko Vojinovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vvmarko@gmail.com">vvmarko@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wednesday 05 May 2010 14:21:06 Marcel Rieux wrote:<br>
> I try to view this video:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/video.html" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/video.html</a><br>
><br>
> and don't succeed.<br>
><br>
> I was able to get an mms URL at Akamai, but here's what happens, even using<br>
> mplayer directly:<br>
><br>
> mplayer mms://<br>
> <a href="http://a1866.v8752c.c8752.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1866/8752/0/origin.media.cbc.ca/" target="_blank">a1866.v8752c.c8752.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1866/8752/0/origin.media.cbc.ca/</a><br>
> windows/fifth/media/lies2.wmv<br>
<br>
</div>If you try mplayer with -v option (verbose mode), it will eventually say<br>
(among other things):<br>
<br>
Parsing playlist<br></blockquote><div><br>I don't get the same error messages as you: <br></div><div><br>mplayer -v <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/video.html">http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/video.html</a> | grep -i 'parsing playlist'<br>
mplayer: could not connect to socket<br>mplayer: No such file or directory<br>Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.<br>Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca">www.cbc.ca</a><br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If I were you, I'd complain to the <a href="http://cbc.ca" target="_blank">cbc.ca</a> webmaster and tell him to fix it.<br></blockquote><div><br>It's going to be an uphill battle:<br><h3>Linux</h3>
<ul><li>At this time Linux is not supported. </li></ul><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/video/help.html#T02">http://www.cbc.ca/video/help.html#T02</a><br><br>Which, of course, it totally unacceptable for a state television. I'll try nonetheless.<br>
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