_media player_ flamefests? Never had one of those before, only vi/emacs, ie/ff, windows/linux and gentoo/other linux.
Do tell; with the exception of the lack of the real codecs (for some reason it's masked in portage), mplayer plays most of the video and all of the streaming audio I've thrown at it :). On Apr 3, 2005 1:40 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 00:32 -0500, Phill MV wrote: > > That's my exact problem. > > Thanks. > > I don't want to start a big media player flamfest here, but you may want > to take a look at kaffeine. > > don't get me wrong, I am a big mplayer fan too, but kaffeine seems to > have improved my in-broswer experience enormously. > > > > > On Apr 2, 2005 4:52 PM, Peter Gaži <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > do you have your mplayer compiled with the 'network' USE flag? That > > > fixed the problem here... > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > On Apr 2, 2005 11:22 PM, Phill MV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For some reason mplayer can't handle some of the online radios my > > > > father likes to check out from time to time (i.e. going to > > > > http://www.tsf.pt/online/primeira/default.asp and clicking on "TSF em > > > > directo" on the navigation bar. See > > > > http://www.cbc.ca/listen/streams/r1_montreal_32.html for an english > > > > example of another radio I can't reach) and I really don't know why it > > > > doesn't work (win32codecs are installed right off portage). > > > > > > > > What usually happens when I visit such a site is that mplayer-in (the > > > > plugin of choice for watching videos on the web in firefox) is that it > > > > will simply hang, not giving me any info. > > > > > > > > This is what follows when I try it via a terminal: > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop $ cat cbcr1-montreal.asx > > > > <ASX VERSION="3.0"> > > > > <ENTRY> > > > > <REF HREF="mms://wm05.nm.cbc.ca/cbcr1-montreal" /> > > > > </ENTRY> > > > > </ASX> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop $ mplayer cbcr1-montreal.asx > > > > MPlayer 1.0pre5try2-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team > > > > > > > > CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred 1667 MHz > > > > (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) > > > > Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes > > > > MMX supported but disabled > > > > MMX2 supported but disabled > > > > SSE supported but disabled > > > > 3DNow supported but disabled > > > > 3DNowExt supported but disabled > > > > CPUflags: MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 > > > > Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: > > > > > > > > Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf > > > > Reading config file /home/hiffy/.mplayer/config > > > > Reading /home/hiffy/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open > > > > '/home/hiffy/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory > > > > Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs > > > > font: can't open file: /home/hiffy/.mplayer/font/font.desc > > > > Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) > > > > Using usleep() timing > > > > Can't open input config file /home/hiffy/.mplayer/input.conf: No such > > > > file or directory > > > > Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds > > > > > > > > Playing cbcr1-montreal.asx. > > > > Cache fill: 0.00% (99 bytes) XMMS: found plugin: libmp4.so (MP4 & > > > > MPEG2/4-AAC audio player - 1.2.x) > > > > XMMS: found plugin: libwav.so (Wave Player 1.2.10) > > > > XMMS: found plugin: libmikmod.so (MikMod Player 1.2.10) > > > > XMMS: found plugin: libcdaudio.so (CD Audio Player 1.2.10) > > > > XMMS: found plugin: libtonegen.so (Tone Generator 1.2.10) > > > > XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libtonegen.so > > > > XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libcdaudio.so > > > > XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmikmod.so > > > > XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libwav.so > > > > XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.so > > > > > > > > Exiting... (End of file) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop $ mplayer mms://wm05.nm.cbc.ca/cbcr1-montreal > > > > MPlayer 1.0pre5try2-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team > > > > > > > > [same stuff as above] > > > > Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf > > > > Reading config file /home/hiffy/.mplayer/config > > > > Reading /home/hiffy/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open > > > > '/home/hiffy/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory > > > > Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs > > > > font: can't open file: /home/hiffy/.mplayer/font/font.desc > > > > Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) > > > > Using usleep() timing > > > > Can't open input config file /home/hiffy/.mplayer/input.conf: No such > > > > file or directory > > > > Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds > > > > > > > > Playing mms://wm05.nm.cbc.ca/cbcr1-montreal. > > > > Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part. > > > > File not found: 'cbcr1-montreal' > > > > Failed to open mms://wm05.nm.cbc.ca/cbcr1-montreal > > > > > > > > Exiting... (End of file) > > > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > -- > > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
