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Old 07-15-2006, 02:13 PM   #1
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Streaming TV and errors with GXine


Have found some websites that stream tv shows via the web

http://www.channelchooser.com/
http://wwitv.com/

I've tried to watch these, and when I click on the url, GXine pops up, but I will get various errors.

One of the errors says I need to d/l and install wmvdmod.dll to watch these streams.

Is anyone having success watching the streaming video from these websites and if so, what player are you using?

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Works perfectly for me using mplayer and mplayerplug-in (you'll need the win32 codecs as well). Get them by either downloading the "all" codecs pack from the mplayer site (install to /usr/lib/win32/) or by finding a pre-built .tgz.

www.slacky.it is a good site for slackware downloads, it lists required dependencies for packages (though the site is in Italian it's not that hard to use), the other main site is www.linuxpackages.net. (Just in case you weren't aware of either).

Hope that helps some.
 
Old 07-17-2006, 09:06 PM   #3
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How do I disable gxine from streaming? I would rather use xmms for streaming audio and xine/mplayer for streaming video...

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Old 07-18-2006, 12:39 AM   #4
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Either uninstall the gxine plugin, delete the gxine plugin or, if you're using firefox, go to Edit/Preferences/Downloads/View & Edit Actions and change the default actions for eac media type to whichever plugin/media player is desired.
 
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Works perfectly for me using mplayer and mplayerplug-in (you'll need the win32 codecs as well). Get them by either downloading the "all" codecs pack from the mplayer site (install to /usr/lib/win32/) or by finding a pre-built .tgz.
Ok, how did you set it up so that mplayer is the default media player? I've installed the codecs to /usr/lib/win32, but when I click on a link, I don't get anything?

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Old 07-19-2006, 12:15 AM   #6
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You need to check that the mplayerplug-ins are installed to the right browser plugins folder and you need to get rid of the gxine plugins or explicitly tell the browser to use the mplayerplug-in-XX.so instead.

Personally I don't like gxine and so uninstall it leaving mplayer and mplayerpug-in for the browser and xine for films disks.
 
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You need to check that the mplayerplug-ins are installed to the right browser plugins folder and you need to get rid of the gxine plugins or explicitly tell the browser to use the mplayerplug-in-XX.so instead.

Personally I don't like gxine and so uninstall it leaving mplayer and mplayerpug-in for the browser and xine for films disks.
I've installed the following mplayer plugins:

-mplayerplug-in.so
-mplayerplug-in.xpt

Which I've installed to two places:

cp mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
cp mplayerplug-in.xpt /usr/lib/firefox/components


cp mplayerplug-in.xpt /home/user/.mozilla/components
cp mplayerplug-in.so /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/

So I don't get channelchooser to work at all.
 
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Check the Firefox preferences to see what its default action is when confronted with various media types.
 
Old 07-22-2006, 11:29 AM   #9
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I only have the following listed in d/l actions

-m3u
-svg
-pls

Looks like alot of the streaming stuff is written in some sort of java script...not sure what i need to do to get this to work.
 
  


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