Re: Web Site Video

From: Mike Gratis (nospam.ironman_capecod_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:12:23 GMT

Mike Gratis wrote:

> Snorkelson Macburp wrote:
>
>> Mike Gratis said the following on 03/10/04 00:49:
>>> Just curious is anyone out there has any luck getting any of these links
>>> to
>>> work, either Quicktime or RealPlayer. I've had no luck with Suse 9.1 in
>>> either Konqueror or with Mozilla & would like to track down what the
>>> issue
>>> is. Thanks....
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I'd given up hope of ever watching it (on my SuSe box), so as I was
>> typing my account of what I had tried, I clicked the link to capture the
>> error I receive and, voila! It worked with Real Player and Firefox. I
>> watched about 30 sec. and then tried the QT link with MPlayer and it
>> barfed. I tried it again with Real Player and it barfed. The error I
>> always get is:
>>
>> Requested file not found. The link you followed may be outdated or
>> inaccurate.
>> (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/nav-vid-bkgnd.jpg)
>>
>> I watch no problem on my Wife's XP box.
>>
>> PS: I just got Hours 2 and 3 Chapter 1 to work. I don't get it...
>>
>
> Okay, what version of RealPlayer are you using? With QuickTime, I see no
> error message, with RealVideo I see "Xine-Error: No Input Plugin". In
> both
> cases, Kaffeine o.4 is what's being used. I installed MPlayer and tried
> to get Konqueror & Mozilla to try to use it; but no go - It keep
> defaulting to Kaffeine.
>

I tried upgrading to RealPlayer 10 - It seems to work; but no difference in
the end result. 

-- 
Mike Gratis

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