[Solved] Can you check if this plays for you (online video)?

hokasch · 2010-10-01 12:04:03

Just to know if this is only on my setup or something wrong with the website - can you play any videos from the cop15 webcast archive, e.g. this one?

Here its just looping an "introductory" 11 seconds video, the real ones never load... Tried with firefox (new profile), Chromium is missing plugins. Thanks!

Last edited by hokasch (2010-10-02 14:13:00)

archman-cro · 2010-10-01 12:30:33

"undefined: registration of player failed"

"Your browser/operating system is not supported"

On Conkeror browser.

R00KIE · 2010-10-01 13:06:14

The second link (didn't try the first link) doesn't work because you are cheap and using linux

Now seriously, it doesn't work because it seems to require windows media player (I guess it might be possible to use vlc or media player as a plugin and try to fool it into playing). So much for "brought to you by meta-fusion - the streaming experts" when it seems to play fine only in windows, I don't like flash but it would have been a much better choice given that it is supported on a lot more platforms and they are not even broadcasting it live.

karol · 2010-10-01 13:11:51

A slightly similar topic for asf / mms: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=96411

Edit: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446/ works for me :-)
I had to click "List all media links of page" and pick the only one from the sidepane. It opened a window, buffered the video and I can see people sitting in the auditorium - does it mean it's working?

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R00KIE · 2010-10-01 13:32:02

The info I can get (using a virtual machine with windows) is:
Lenght: 41:42
Bit rate: 331Kbps
Media type: Video
Video Size: 384x216
Audio codec: Windown Media Audio 9.2 12Kbps, 16KHz, mono 1-pass CBR
Video codec: Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile
Location: http://webcast.cop15.dk/kongresse/cop15 … ng+experts

If you want to use chromium I guess you can infer what you need from the page source but it is a big PITA, so much for interoperability.

karol · 2010-10-01 13:39:08

Try this:

mplayer mms://a414.v28799.c2879.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/414/2879/001/origin.metafusion.gl-systemhaus.de/unfccc/cop15/091219_0300_cop15_p1_enc09_floor.wmv?obj=001

Stebalien · 2010-10-01 14:44:00

It plays in gecko-mediaplayer (gnome-mplayer embedded in firefox).

Awebb · 2010-10-01 14:44:02

It doesn't even work on my windows box using Opera. Time for a rant against the UN for not supporting free software?

bt · 2010-10-01 21:39:23

works in vlc

Darksoul71 · 2010-10-02 07:13:24

The second link requires WIndows Media Player 11 to be installed.
At least that ist what my Firefox tells me on my WinXP host (dual boot with arch64 )

hokasch · 2010-10-02 14:12:38

Karol wrote:

I can see people sitting in the auditorium - does it mean it's working?

At least in the context of streaming video, it does!

Mediaplayer-connectivity apparently has the powerz to discover the second file besides the trailer, so I can play/dumb it directly via mplayer. Perfect, thanks!

Silly extra question: how did you get that mms link in your clipboard?

R00KIE · 2010-10-02 14:30:54

hokasch wrote:

Silly extra question: how did you get that mms link in your clipboard?

Hard way:
Open the page, look at the source and figure out which is the link to the actual video you want, which should be http://mfile3.akamai.com/2879/wmv/origi … sx?obj=001 (line 205), if you download that using wget then you get a file with the link inside (mms://a366.v28795.c2879.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/366/2879/001/origin.metafusion.gl-systemhaus.de/unfccc/cop15/091219_0300_cop15_p1_enc09_engl.wmv?obj=001).

Easy way:
Use the firefox plugin then it should be easy to get the link from the player.

Half way there:
use vlc to open the first link, it will automagically download the file and play it.
or use mplayer -playlist <first_link> it will also do the job (add any extra switches you want).

karol · 2010-10-02 14:33:16

I honestly don't remember how I got that url, but I can peek what's mplayer doing while it plays the video:

[karol@black radio]$ ps x | grep mplayer | grep -v grep
 3649 ?        SL     0:00 /usr/bin/mplayer mms://a637.v2879c.c2879.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/637/2879/001/origin.metafusion.gl-systemhaus.de/unfccc/cop15/stationid_384x216.wmv?obj=001 mms://a414.v28799.c2879.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/414/2879/001/origin.metafusion.gl-systemhaus.de/unfccc/cop15/091219_0300_cop15_p1_enc09_floor.wmv?obj=001&WMStartupProfile=0

That's how you get both videos: the intro and the real thing.

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile <filename> <stream url>

will save it to disk. You can use it via the plugin too - go to the 'Tools' tab and set it as your download manager.

Edit: If you have an http link, use the '-playlist' option in mplayer to play it (as ROOKIE suggested). If you have an mms link, you don't need any switches with the stock Arch mplayer.

Last edited by karol (2010-10-02 14:36:54)

hokasch · 2010-10-03 10:39:02

Thanks guys!

Weirdly enough it seems impossible to get the raw link from the firefox plugin, but putting the dumb command directly in mediaplayer-connectivity does the job. I didn't think of opening with vlc and get the link via GUI (media information or so), or that you can grep it from ps....

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