On 7/12/11 3:05 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > >> On 7/12/11 12:23 PM, JD wrote: >> >>> This used to work with SM 2.0+ but I'm having limited success with >>> SM2.2. >>> >>> http://www.kbat.com/ >>> >>> ... >> >> It requires Micro$oft's Media Player, which I refuse to install. Too >> often, streaming broadcasts through Media Player require that I >> keep the Web page for the broadcast up. This means I cannot change >> profiles. I have the same problem with streaming broadcasts through >> Flash, but I do have that installed. > > This is occasionally true, but in my experience you can usually > right-click the playing WM vid, choose properties, and get the URL. Then > you can copy/paste that into WMP and close the browser if you like. For > Flash vids, you normally have to search the embedding page's source > code, and as often as not these days they're "flv," not "swf." > > As for changing profiles in midstream, that's something that had never > occurred to me, but I suppose you have your reasons. > > Isn't it possible to set SM's Helper Applications prefs to launch wmv > and similar MIME types in a freestanding player? > >> I stick to streaming broadcasts through RealPlayer and WinAmp. >> Although launched through SeaMonkey, they operate independent of the >> browser. Indeed, I can shut down SeaMonkey entirely without affecting >> the broadcast reception. > > This is a question of taste. I dumped both of those years ago -- RP > because I didn't like its intrusiveness and WinAmp because it didn't > play enough media types. I'm happy now with WMP and VLC most of the > time, with QuickTime as an occasional fallback. >
I dropped QuickTime when they started having as many security updates as Windows. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
