On 6/2/05, Robin Laing Robin.Laing@drdc-rddc.gc.ca wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
Robin Laing wrote: | Claude Jones wrote: || On Tuesday 31 May 2005 7:46 pm, John Mahowald wrote: || ||| On 5/31/05, Robin Laing Robin.Laing@drdc-rddc.gc.ca wrote: ||| |||| The link was similar to this. |||| |||| mss://www.someserver.com/multimedia/thisfile.wmv ||| ||| Try opening the link in a video player like totem. || || || That's not going to work unless she installs the Windows Media || codecs. Try the mplayer site for more info on how to get that || working | | First, honest mistake, not all Robins are girls. My wife would | be in for a shock. :) Of course I know a few and I still get | mail addressed to Ms. Mrs. etc. | .......snip | I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer | by using the url. It didn't want to work. I will play with it | some more. | -- | Robin Laing
Sorry bout that, Robin - I've had indifferent success with mplayer and the codecs, but I have gotten them to work. The results can be a bit frustrating because they don't always work - suppose it's version dependent or something. I've always done it in conjunction with Kaffeine, but that's not the only way, according to what I've read.
Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc./WTVS Leesburg, VA, USA
I work with video at home and work and have mostly great success with mplayer. The only issue I have had is with damaged files that won't play. The files will in many cases play in xine though.
I am going to try to with a (yuck) windows machine to see if there is a firewall issue on the corporate network or server side restrictions.
-- Robin Laing
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You could always make a .asp file and open that with xine or mplayer Contents would be something like: <ASX Version="3">
<TITLE> a title </Title>
<ENTRY> <REF HREF="mms://trog.ni.com/ni/webevents/lv/lv_datastorage_fast.wmv"/> </ENTRY> </ASX>
This usually works, I haven't tried it yet, but maybe it works
Bart