Re: Web Site Video

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

Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 15:46:53 GMT

Snorkelson Macburp wrote:

> Mike Gratis said the following on 03/10/04 09:18:
>> Snorkelson Macburp wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Mike Gratis said the following on 03/10/04 00:49:
>>>
>>>>Just curious is anyone out there has any luck gettingthingsf 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 The link you followed may be outdated or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'm using RealPlayer10. QuickTime? Is there a QuickTime for Linux? The
> last time I checked there wasn't.
>
> When it doesn't work, (which is usually) I have to reload the page in
> Firefox or it will absolutely not work if I try again. I seem to have
> better luck with the chapters in hours 2 and 3 rather than in hour 1. I
> think another poster is right though. I'll bet it's a java thing rather
> than a player issue.
>
> Have you installed the MPlayer Plugin too? I believe you need it. I much
> prefer it to xine for streaming video. You can get it at Pacman's site,
> http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=319
> I wish MPlayer would work, I'm pretty sure it would allow a person to
> (horror of horrors!) save the streams to disk.
>
> Isn't Kaffeine just a KDE front end for Xine? That's what I thought
> anyway. Either way, I didn't like it and switched to MPlayer. I seem to
> recall uninstalling Xine and Kaffeine was the easiest way to undo all of
> the file adssociations etc.
>
> Sorry I can't be more helpful. I've got a long way to go before
> achieving "Propellerhead" status. :) I posted about this very problem
> several weeks back (using RP8 at the time) and I didn't receive much in
> the way of help (at least nothing definative). Getting MPlayer working
> resolved a good many of my streaming problems, just not this one. There
> are a lot of "M$ Friendly" sites out there that really piss me off. Some
> will pass the stream through anyway, and they usually work. Some just
> refuse to work (and say so) without M$/WMP on board.
>

I have Xine configured to do QT (.mov), and MPlayer will do it, too. Just
not on this site.... I tried installing RP 10; but no difference. Just
curious if anyone else out there has had to uninstall Kaffeine and/or Xine
to get thigns to work properly. Had to upgrade Xine to get DVDs to play;
so I'd hate to have to uninstall it and then not be able to play DVDs. I
can usually figure things out in Linux; but this has so far eluded me.... 

-- 
Mike Gratis

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