null Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 (edited) 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. Edited August 25, 2006 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Playing videos depends on the website too. If it is using a browser recognition you won't see that video unless you find a way to download it to your hard drive. I ususally can watch wmv videos using mplayer-plugin. Of course you need win32codecs, realplayer codecs etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted August 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 maybe you have to reconfigure your helper-applications (the way how firefox handles files), it is in the downloads section of your firefox settings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irlandes Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 >>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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 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 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irlandes Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 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 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irlandes Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 (edited) 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. Edited December 21, 2006 by Greg2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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