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I've been using FF for quite a while now, but it seems like now (new version 1.5) I can't play half the video stuff I come across on websites. Just get messages like "firefox can't play this" (after I waste time waiting for the video to d/l). I think its shockwave, and also .wmv stuff.

 

Is there another linux browswer that handles this stuff better?

 

edit: according to the mozilla site, this stuff is "unavailable" for linux.

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you can trick such sites sometimes by switching your user-agent

 

mplayer-plugin works for wmv, real if you have win32-codecs installed, don't know about shockwave though

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maybe you have to reconfigure your helper-applications (the way how firefox handles files), it is in the downloads section of your firefox settings

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>>maybe you have to reconfigure your helper-applications (the way how firefox handles files), it is in the downloads section of your firefox settings

 

I would sure like to do that! I have a problem with audio streaming. I am in the Third World, and want to listen to radio streaming, to wit, US talk shows. They come in fine in XP but I don't want to use XP. In Mandriva free 2007 I get the audio player for WABC

to come up, then it says: CAN'T PARSE THAT NO FILES.

 

I have narrowed the problem to a bug in totem. The Ubuntu team allegedly developed a patch 12/03/2006. See https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+sourc...otem/+bug/71113

 

This may be called bug 350912 or 35803. by the ubuntu gnome team I don't know much about this bug stuff.

 

So, one assumes eventually there will be an update for totem. It is currently 2.16.1 I think.

 

However, I just spent large amounts of time installing; installing; reinstalling etc. mplayer. All I need to do is convince firefox 1.5 in my Mandriva 2007 to change from totem player to mplayer. about:plugins shows them both present, and I spent a large amount of time messing with mplayer stuff, .so and .xpt etc before I ran top and discovered it was running totem-mozilla-v not mplayer.

 

In Preferences > Download > Edit & actions, it does not list anything but an RGB file, and there is no way that I know of to add a file format so it can be changed. The usual wisdom says to change the call-out but that is not possible unless there is a hidden config file I can edit?

 

Any ideas?

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I have a problem with audio streaming. I am in the Third World, and want to listen to radio streaming, to wit, US talk shows. They come in fine in XP but I don't want to use XP. In Mandriva free 2007 I get the audio player for WABC

to come up, then it says: CAN'T PARSE THAT NO FILES.

Here's a workaround (hack) to convert http to pnm (ram to ra) and use mplayer:

[greg@halfway temp-real]$ wget http://musicradio.computer.net/images/ingrampromos61a.ram
--17:04:30--  http://musicradio.computer.net/images/ingrampromos61a.ram
	   => `ingrampromos61a.ram'
Resolving musicradio.computer.net... 207.50.192.229
Connecting to musicradio.computer.net|207.50.192.229|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 39 [audio/x-pn-realaudio]

100%[========================================================>] 39			--.--K/s

17:04:31 (3.10 MB/s) - `ingrampromos61a.ram' saved [39/39]
[greg@halfway temp-real]$ cat ingrampromos61a.ram
pnm://207.50.192.228/ingrampromos61a.ra
[greg@halfway temp-real]$ mplayer pnm://207.50.192.228/ingrampromos61a.ra
MPlayer 1.0pre8-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
-snip-
Playing pnm://207.50.192.228/ingrampromos61a.ra.
STREAM_PNM, URL: pnm://207.50.192.228/ingrampromos61a.ra
Resolving 207.50.192.228 for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 207.50.192.228
Connecting to server 207.50.192.228[207.50.192.228]: 7070...
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Cache fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes)
REAL file format detected.
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
Clip info:
name: A Series of Early WABC Dan Ingram Promos
author: Dan Ingram
copyright: courtesy www.musicradio77.com

you can ignore the invalid chunksize... it plays very well :)

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It seems what you are doing involves archived files, download them then play them. Does this relate to my wife listening to Paul Harvey? Sorry I don't understand this.

 

 

I have a problem with audio streaming. I am in the Third World, and want to listen to radio streaming, to wit, US talk shows. They come in fine in XP but I don't want to use XP. In Mandriva free 2007 I get the audio player for WABC

to come up, then it says: CAN'T PARSE THAT NO FILES.

Here's a workaround (hack) to convert http to pnm (ram to ra) and use mplayer:

[greg@halfway temp-real]$ wget http://musicradio.computer.net/images/ingrampromos61a.ram
--17:04:30--  http://musicradio.computer.net/images/ingrampromos61a.ram
	   => `ingrampromos61a.ram'
Resolving musicradio.computer.net... 207.50.192.229
Connecting to musicradio.computer.net|207.50.192.229|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 39 [audio/x-pn-realaudio]

100%[========================================================>] 39			--.--K/s

17:04:31 (3.10 MB/s) - `ingrampromos61a.ram' saved [39/39]
[greg@halfway temp-real]$ cat ingrampromos61a.ram
pnm://207.50.192.228/ingrampromos61a.ra
[greg@halfway temp-real]$ mplayer pnm://207.50.192.228/ingrampromos61a.ra
MPlayer 1.0pre8-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
-snip-
Playing pnm://207.50.192.228/ingrampromos61a.ra.
STREAM_PNM, URL: pnm://207.50.192.228/ingrampromos61a.ra
Resolving 207.50.192.228 for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 207.50.192.228
Connecting to server 207.50.192.228[207.50.192.228]: 7070...
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Cache fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes)
REAL file format detected.
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
Clip info:
name: A Series of Early WABC Dan Ingram Promos
author: Dan Ingram
copyright: courtesy www.musicradio77.com

you can ignore the invalid chunksize... it plays very well :)

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It seems what you are doing involves archived files, download them then play them.

I've only d/l an address, and changed it to an address (URL) that mplayer can use.

 

It's one I found on this site:

http://www.musicradio77.com/

and Firefox plugins would not handle the URL

 

Show me a link to what you want to listen to and I'll check it.

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It seems what you are doing involves archived files, download them then play them.

I've only d/l an address, and changed it to an address (URL) that mplayer can use.

 

It's one I found on this site:

http://www.musicradio77.com/

and Firefox plugins would not handle the URL

 

Show me a link to what you want to listen to and I'll check it.

 

http://www.wabcradio.com/ and follow LISTEN LIVE

 

And we want to listen to it for long periods of time.

 

I suspect until there is a fix for totem, or I figure out how to change firefox preferences to mplayer, we will be using XP for this. However, I am interested to see what you come up with. Thanks.

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Ok, if you want to listen to this or 'almost' any streaming radio or video

http://www.wabcradio.com/article.asp?id=122648

 

You will need to install:

 

mplayer1.0-1.pre8.13plf2007.0

real-codecs-1.2.3plf

win32-codecs-1.8-1plf2007.0

mplayerplugin-3.25-2mdv2007.0

 

and for .asx you will need:

 

vlc-0.8.5-11plf200.0

mozilla-plugin-vlc-0.8.5.11mdv2007

 

Please note (from their site):

Sorry, but if your ISP is located outside of the U.S.A. you will no longer be able to stream WABC radio at this time for the Saturday music show which runs from 6pm–10pm.

 

Let us know if that works for you?

 

http://www.wabcradio.com/ and follow LISTEN LIVE

 

And we want to listen to it for long periods of time.

I'm listening to it now with the packages I've listed for you to install.

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I thought I installed the mplayer-plugin a long time ago. When I click on a wmv video, FF only gives me the option of opening it with Totem.

 

I'll mess around with it when I get home later.

 

Totem has it's own plugin and does not handle wmv. I installed this with another package and didn't know, just remove the totem plugin and check you still have the mplayer plugin installed.

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