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You can get the address by selecting RealPlayer as your preferred player, then right-clicking on the "Standalone Player" link and selecting Properties from the Pop-up menu. Double-click on the address and paste it into RealPlayer (File > Open Location). Here is the address if you want to try it straightaway:
No sound problems here but then I'm using Fedora 8, which has pulseaudio. No more oss or alsa for me. By the way, have you installed alsa-oss? I think that one was written precisely to resolve alsa vs oss conflicts.
Note: sorry about posting the hyperlink as a, well, a hyperlink. I tried pasting it as plain text but it keeps getting converted into a hyperlink... Here is another attempt, with a space inserted after http to throw off LQ:
Ubuntu 7.10 from bagside.com as vmware app has mplayer installed.
This works for windows media stream video and audio as embedded plugin for BBC News and Streamick.com. CNN Live fails with 'unsupported platform' error message.
The settings I had to change to (from defaults) in mplayer prefs were:
Video - x11
Audio - alsa
Connect to RTSP Media over TCP
At last! A solution (well almost) ... however, none of the above works in Opera (???!!!).
I will continue messing about. Pity it didn't work in Mandriva (sort of cleaner interface, but maybe a key factor is that Ubuntu is using Gnome while Mandriva had KDE .... I'm not up to speed to be able to answer that.
Thanks again for your help.
Last edited by castalla2007; 12-22-2007 at 10:50 AM.
Castalla, Opera may introduce another level of complexity. It has its own way of dealing with plug-ins so what works for Firefox may not work for Opera. Considering that it is a proprietary browser, any issues should be taken up with them. Firefox would be the failsafe option, though (or any of its derivatives/ancestors: Netscape navigator, Swiftfox, Flock, Kazehakase, Seamonkey, ...).
On the subject of Ubuntu, I would say that there is a good chance that it will work just as well if you install it to bare metal rather than in a virtual machine. I would be surprised if someone had performed any magic on the VMware version.
Ubuntu 7.10 from bagside.com as vmware app has mplayer installed.
This works for windows media stream video and audio as embedded plugin for BBC News and Streamick.com. CNN Live fails with 'unsupported platform' error message.
The settings I had to change to (from defaults) in mplayer prefs were:
Video - x11
Audio - alsa
Connect to RTSP Media over TCP
At last! A solution (well almost) ... however, none of the above works in Opera (???!!!).
I will continue messing about. Pity it didn't work in Mandriva (sort of cleaner interface, but maybe a key factor is that Ubuntu is using Gnome while Mandriva had KDE .... I'm not up to speed to be able to answer that.
Thanks again for your help.
you can install KDE in ubuntu by sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
hey castalla2007, you're on the right track. Good work!!!
BTW, the unsupported platform error can be fixed by changing the user agent in firefox to MS internet Explorer. This will trick the server that you are using MS IE and thus allow you to MS specific areas.
This does not fool all sites, but it's worth to try.
Do a goole search on changing the user agent in firefox.
This will not disrupt your bookmarks nor your plugins in case you're
wondering.
I guess it depends on the version of the plug-ins. Having something slightly newer can sometimes make a lot of difference . Not to mention that the plug-ins may have been compiled with different options.
As far as I can tell the mplayer plugins are all 3.45 (I think). I've used the same mplayer settings each time and only in the same version of firefox.
Why the same windows stream should work in one distro and not in another still remains a mystery to me - from memory I think the only 2 distros which have played the BBC windows stream embedded are ubuntu and mepis (ubuntu was more 'fluid' than mepis).
The search continues for the all-playing distro ....
... more later (depending on distro download speeds!)
Last edited by castalla2007; 12-28-2007 at 01:40 AM.
@castalla2008:
You said something a few pages back that CNN doesn't load because the Linux "platform is not supported".
From what I know is that some websites use DRM through ActiveX (that crappy stuff Internet Explorer uses). Maybe you could try the Mozilla ActiveX plugin.
@castalla2008:
You said something a few pages back that CNN doesn't load because the Linux "platform is not supported".
From what I know is that some websites use DRM through ActiveX (that crappy stuff Internet Explorer uses). Maybe you could try the Mozilla ActiveX plugin.
I don't think there is an ActiveX plugin to run natively on linux. This is an MS proprietary protocol. You need to use firefox or IE with wine or wine-doors
to use the activeX protocal. That is the info I read after googling about it in the past.
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