On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:52:19AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:53 -0500, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:44:17AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:34 -0500, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
Someone decided to have TV channels delivered to people on campus through the internet to be viewed on computer screens. In Windows this seems to be pretty automatic. The web site opens and loads plugins for the mp4 and mp2 TV signals.
Now my mystery is how to do this in Linux. Any advice out there?
do you have mplayer installed?
on my FC-3 system (at means Axel Thimm's repo)
# rpm -qa|grep mplayer mplayer-1.0-36_pre5.rhfc3.at mplayer-fonts-1.0-6.at mplayer-skins-1.0-pre3_12.at mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.1.at mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.1.fc3.rf
Craig
I have the following installed and mplayer works but the tv does not. mplayer-1.0-0.lvn.o26.pre7try2.4 mplayer-fonts-1.1.0.lvn.3.4 mplayerplug-in-2.80.0.lvn.1.4 w32codec-1.0_20041107-11.at
Which is one combination of mplayer that works on CNN video for example but not on tv. I can try to install the skin and skins rpms if you think that would help.
I believe that the skins are what make it a standalone player (not a plug-in in firefox for example)
Normally, when you browse to a page that would open a stream, it would search for a mime-type and that would be the clue as to how to handle it. I presume that you open a browser and connect to a specific link - you probably need to give us more details of what is happening and where things stop working - and I would suggest on fedora-list since there are people who are a lot more knowledgeable than I on this stuff.
Craig
This post is too long but let me briefly explain. First the broadcast stream if retrieved from a Windows server which in turn retrieves it from a Linux server. It is stated by the producer of the distribution software that it works in IE (Windows) and Safari (OS/X). They say flatly that it does not work with firefox and I am trying to find out why. (By the way where do you find the skins rpm? Everywhere I found it it would not download).
I am always mystified how you add a plugin or expand the extensions for a file type like video/mpeg. Anyway mplayer works on a variety of video file types by mp2 and mp4 are not among them. So I would like to add them. I tried by changing the pluginreg.dat and the mimeTypes.rdf files but to no avail. The video files are not recognized. Any further ideas out there. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484