Paul, if Flowplayer can play it, it has to be something handled in the Flash runtime, which limits it to MP4, VP6, or H.264 (to the best of my knowledge) codecs. Often these video streams are packaged in the FLV (Flash Video) or F4V (Flash mpeg4 video) container formats.
So, you could abstract that by saying. If Flowplayer can play it, you can play it in mplayer, vlc, gxine, and probably a dozen other open source video players, provided you have the right codecs, and the player application allows you to specify the URL to the remote or local FLV file. Many of those video players can be configured to use a secondary video display as their video display screen. So you could have a video card with dual DVI outputs - #1 goes to your monitor. #2 goes to a DVI->HDMI adapter that goes to your TV (or DVI->VGA to Composite or s-video or whatever adapter) If you had a setup like that, you could use your computer, click on a movie file saved locally, or click on a URL to an online video resource, and the resource would be handled by the local mplayer/vlc/whatever application and use the second video output to play the video to your television monitor. One thing that might be tricky is when websites only give you HTML with the embedded flowplayer for flash, but don't really want you to get to the FLV file directly. Also, flowplayer supports the use of RTMP instead of HTTP to retrieve video content from a Flash streaming video server. If that is the case, you will need to use a video downloader plugin for firefox and go to the page where flowplayer is loading the RTMP stream, then tell it to intercept and save the stream to a local FLV file. I hope this was helpful. I do a lot of video processing/editing/streaming for my church, and I'm switching to an open source video streamcasting system and using flowplayer in the website, so I am pretty familiar with all of these file formats. On 4/18/2011, "Paul Saenz" <forensicneoph...@gmail.com> wrote: >Yes, you are missing something. I want to play the video on my tv >rather than my monitor. And I think I have the solution, which is >boxee, so I would like to terminate this thread. > >Thanks > >On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Todd Lyons <tly...@ivenue.com> wrote: >> Maybe I'm missing something, but a webbrowser with flash is what you >> want if you're wanting to consume the video. >> >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Paul Saenz <forensicneoph...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I'm not trying to watch tv online. There is some streaming video I >>> want to watch. The producers use flowplayer to provide it online. I >>> think that boxee is what I am looking for. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Flowplayer is a flash video player for the web, you want to configure a >>>> webplayer to watch TV on? Are you trying to watch TV over the web? I >>>> remember there being a MythTV plugin (using mythweb http://bit.ly/f7iouU) >>>> that allowed you to hit the mythtv box from outside and watch shows already >>>> recorded via a webpage. >>>> >>>> I do not understand what you are trying to accomplish. >>>> >>>> Chris... >>>> >>>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, April 17, 2011 01:48:31 am Paul Saenz wrote: >>>>> >>>>> > Actually, for the video that I want to play on the tv, I believe the >>>>> > streaming is done through flowplayer. http://flowplayer.org/ At first >>>>> > glance it appears that flowplayer uses flash, mp3 and FLV. >>>>> > http://flowplayer.org/ Although I have seen flowplayer before, I'm not >>>>> > really familiar with flowplayer so I don't really know how it works. >>>>> > http://flowplayer.org/demos/index.html >>>>> >>>>> Are you talking about using flowplayer to run your own video, or to see >>>>> video >>>>> on your TV, that you can already see on your computer. >>>>> >>>>> If the latter, you can, if your TV has either a computer video input >>>>> (analog >>>>> or dvi) or hdmi input, simply connect your computer to your TV to use it >>>>> as a >>>>> display device. If your TV has neither, you'll probably need a hardware >>>>> video >>>>> card or adapter to convert the signal. >>>>> >>>>> If the former, it appears you can install it in your linux box (I say >>>>> _appears_ because the documentation and requirement pages on their site >>>>> don't >>>>> work properly) and do the same as in the latter example. >>>>> >>>>> Jeff >>>>> -- >>>>> Jeff Lasman >>>>> Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 >>>>> Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only >>>>> Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>>>> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >>>>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be >>>> continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." >>>> -Roger Penrose >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>>> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >>>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards... 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