Ted Gervais wrote:
I am trying to get my latest installation of Centos (4.4) to see videos when I am in www.cnn.com.
I installed mplayer using yum and that went well. But I still get the screen from microsoft saying I need to install their plugin..
What more can I do to get these videos to work when I use either mozilla or konqueror..
well, FWIW, I played a sample video on there with Firefox on Windows XP, it says it -requires- windows media player (which of course, I have), and hwen the video played, the video streaming URL was...
http://dynamic.cnn.com/apps/tp/video/world/2007/03/07/dinnen.cannabis.granny...
I'm trying to find the javascript thats launching this on the player html/js source, without much luck, but Firefox tells me the video was delivered with mimetype: application/x-mplayer2
ah, and that asx file delivered from the above URL itself contains...
<asx version = "3.0"> <param name="xmlFile" value="/video/world/2007/03/07/dinnen.cannabis.granny.cnn/pipeline.xml" /> <entry> <ref href="mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com.edgestreams.net/cnn/world/2007/03/07/dinnen.cannabis.granny.cnn.ws.wmv"/> <ref href="http://wmscnn.stream.aol.com.edgestreams.net/cnn/world/2007/03/07/dinnen.cannabis.granny.cnn.ws.wmv"/> </entry> </asx>
(after I deleted a WHOLE lotta whitespace)
and, that dinnen.cannabis.granny.cnn.ws.wmv file itself is in fact...
[Reference] Ref1=http://wmscnn.stream.aol.com.edgestreams.net/cnn/world/2007/03/07/dinnen.can... Ref2=http://72.246.30.174:80/cnn/world/2007/03/07/dinnen.cannabis.granny.cnn.ws.w...
but, none of these are getting me the actual video file, I'm probably missing something.
so, I'm guessing you need a video player that can interpret ASX XML headers, and then stream whatever they are pointing at.