Helix realplayer 10 works OK. No error when run from command line. No error message when running firefox from the command line. If you actually download the html to which the link points, you can then find the actually movie file url:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/video/nsn-wrap-i-flip.mov When you try to play that with mplayer you get: Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x20666976 If you follow the downloaded html reference to the xml file, and search for Maya, you come up with: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/video/3401-03-lo-ref.mov or http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/video/3401-03-hi-ref.mov If you fire up mplayer, you can then open this URL directly and play it (though mplayer complains about not being able to resolve the IP6 address). I think it's the wrappers and indirection that's screwing things up. David Looney rbw wrote: > I'm having an issue with MPlayer and streaming content. MPlayer is > running fine for DVD/CD media I load and for streaming places like > YouTube.com however this KPBS site will not play: > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3401/03.html > > I've tried all 3 streaming methods both high and low. > > The player indicates there is a connection and it pulls the streaming > URL and even for a very brief moment looks like it is going to launch > but the Firefox embedded player then displays "Stopped". > > I checked "rpm -qa|grep mplayer" and got: > mplayer-fonts-1.1-4.lvn6 > vdr-mplayer-0.9.15-3.lvn6 > mplayer-doc-1.0-0.66.rc1.lvn6 > mplayer-gui-1.0-0.66.rc1.lvn6 > mplayerplug-in-3.35-1.lvn6 > mplayer-1.0-0.66.rc1.lvn6 > > Which appears to be the latest available according to the Livna > repository at: > http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repoview/sound-and-video.group.html > > > Has anyone heard of an issue like this that requires some fix? > > rbw > > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
