On 3/21/2012 9:38 PM Paul B. Gallagher submitted the following: > W3BNR wrote: > >> On 3/21/2012 9:06 PM NoOp submitted the following: >>> On 03/21/2012 05:43 PM, W3BNR wrote: >>>> Can't view it in SM 2.8 with VLC Media Player (not downloadin), but it's >>>> working >>>> in IE with VLC; >>>> >>>> <http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/webcast/ > >>> >>> Interesting. Works for me with Chromium (linux), but not SM, FF, or >>> Opera (linux). However, I can pretty much verify that that is most >>> likely a configuration issue as entering the video URL >>> (http://mfile.akamai.com/18569/live/reflector:59445.asx?bkup=32644) >>> directly into VLC fetches and plays the webcast just fine. >> >> Thanks for the confirmation. It would then appear to be a SM problem. > > I had the same problem, and solved it, sort of: > > I began by looking at Page Info in SeaMonkey, and discovered on the Media tab > that the file type was video/x-ms-asf. In the SeaMonkey prefs, I found that > the > helper app for this file type was set to "Use VLC Web plugin (in SeaMonkey)." > I > changed it to "Use VLC.asf (default)" and reloaded the URL. This launched the > freestanding player, and after about 30 seconds (as advertised at the NASA > site), the stream began playing. > > However, after several minutes VLC popped up an error message saying: > > Your input can't be opened: > VLC is unable to open the MRL > 'mms://a1446.l1856959445.c18569.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1446/18569/v0001/reflector:59445'. > Check the log for details. > Your input can't be opened: > VLC is unable to open the MRL > 'mms://a645.l1856932644.c18569.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/645/18569/v0001/reflector:32644'. > Check the log for details. > > Since the URL was still parked in the SM location bar, I just closed VLC and > went back and hit "Enter" to reload it. Didn't help -- VLC immediately > generated > the same error message. Must be a problem at the source. >
That may have been after about 9:30pm EDT when they cancelled the mission for the night and shut down the video feed? -- Ed, W3BNR http://JonesFarm.us/W3BNR Powered by SeaMonkey: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Every purchase has its price. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
