Re: [gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?
On Sunday 22 October 2006 23:14, James wrote: > I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using > espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the > Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones > and which plugins work best? > > Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if > so any caveats or gotchas? Last time I tried it didn't work with gxine, or xine. As far as I can recall the reason was that this website is using active-x scripting to establish a SSL connection and the Linux apps/plugins do not (yet) have a way of parsing that. Otherwise, either xine or mplayer will happily play wmp streams. It may be more complicated than what I am alluding to above, but that's as far as my understanding could take me. ;-) You could always write to the website master/admin and ask them to provide you with a link that works without active-x, but they are such an exclusive M$haft shop I'd wager you get a "we do not support anything else than Billy Gate's shareholders . . ." type of response. -- Regards, Mick pgptjj8PdKvNA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?
On Sunday 22 October 2006 19:14, James wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using > espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the > Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones > and which plugins work best? > > Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if > so any caveats or gotchas? > > James I use kmplayer embeded in konqueror to watch wmp media streams of football games at liverpoolfc.tv No idea if it will work with firefox. It's not a specific plugin, in fact thinking about it I not sure exactly how it works :-) But I got it working so it can't be that difficult. Check out the gentoo wiki. That's the first place I usually go to get info on these sorts of things. You need mplayer obviously and it needs to be compiled with win32codecs. Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?
James wrote: Hello, I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones and which plugins work best? Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if so any caveats or gotchas? James If you're using Firefox or any other Netscape-compatible browser (Epiphany, Seamonkey), try mplayerplug-in with USE="win32codecs". -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?
Hello, I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones and which plugins work best? Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if so any caveats or gotchas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
