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whaler

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 323

Anyone able to play these files?

I thought I could play most any streaming media file by now, and I probably can, but there are exceptions:

http://www.aftenposten.no/webtv/?id=12324

Are there any multimedia experts here who can play this in Arch? If so, I would be very interested in finding out what I am am missing in my setup...

dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Anyone able to play these files?

MEEP. That site is... agh.

Anyway, once all the navigation buttons (form submit buttons ) were done loading I jumped into the HTML that was... one gigantic line of text. eep.

That done, I located the video control (amazingly)... and found that the video is in an iframe. Agh.

Once in the iframe, I found that the video is actually a WMV; I know of no way to play such a video inside a webpage.

Your best bet is to position the mouse over the 'Click here to download plugin' white area, point to 'This Frame', select View Frame Source, find the mms:// link inside the page source, and pass this URL to mplayer.

You could get fancy with scripting, but that would be the easiest solution.

-dav7

Last edited by dav7 (2008-12-26 15:11:49)

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,384

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Re: Anyone able to play these files?

You could use the gecko-mediaplayer plugin (or the other mplayer-plugin) to play it, provided you have the codecs package installed.

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freek

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From: the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 73

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Re: Anyone able to play these files?

Opera .. gxine-plugin > no problems .. (running Debian)

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