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..
Thanks..
On 3/8/07, Ted Gervais ve1drg@av.eastlink.ca 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..
Welcome to the world of "doesn't everyone use microsoft?"
What more can I do to get these videos to work when I use either mozilla or konqueror..
You need to install mplayerplug-in, and very likely the w32codecs (no rpm available because of intellectual property and blah blah).
Hey.... Jim Perrin, you did it again. Thanks very much for the tip. I did a few things further to what you suggested but when I added mplayerplug-in-3.35-fc6.i386.rpm than the videos started to work.
Really nice. And that is without the W32Codec files. Or at least I never installed those codec files but who knows, they could already be installed with this new version of CentOS.
Again thanks Jim for your help . It is really appreciated..
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 19:20 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 3/8/07, Ted Gervais ve1drg@av.eastlink.ca 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..
Welcome to the world of "doesn't everyone use microsoft?"
What more can I do to get these videos to work when I use either mozilla or konqueror..
You need to install mplayerplug-in, and very likely the w32codecs (no rpm available because of intellectual property and blah blah).
Ted Gervais wrote:
Really nice. And that is without the W32Codec files. Or at least I never installed those codec files but who knows, they could already be installed with this new version of CentOS.
I can assure you that CentOS does *NOT* install any windows codecs. But you probably installed ffmpeg from the rpmforge repository, which is able to work with *some*, if not most of the wmv stuff out there. Except when it comes to DRM content or really current codecs.
Ralph
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:45 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Ted Gervais wrote:
Really nice. And that is without the W32Codec files. Or at least I never installed those codec files but who knows, they could already be installed with this new version of CentOS.
I can assure you that CentOS does *NOT* install any windows codecs. But you probably installed ffmpeg from the rpmforge repository, which is able to work with *some*, if not most of the wmv stuff out there. Except when it comes to DRM content or really current codecs.
I did install a bunch of stuff from rpmforge so maybe you are right. Maybe ffmpeg is doing things for me.. Whatever, I am happy that things are working well for me..
Thanks for your input. It is appreciated..
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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.
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