On Tuesday 07 October 2008 12:17:37 am Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

I've recently gotten this working with the mplayer plugin. I think I am using the one from Packman repository. if you use 64-bit openSUSE you must use 64-bit firefox (you can install the 32-bit plugin but it won't work w/o 32-bit mplayer, and when you try to install that it wants to convert just about every KDE package to 32bit)

I can play the live streaming audio on Sirius radio and other such sites.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:13 PM, James Hatridge wrote:

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Hi all,

I just installed 11.0 today. Now on some video sites FF can not play the video, it wants "Windows Media Player" but I've not found a Linux plugin for this.

What can I do? BTW I was able to play these videos under 10.1 with SeaMonkey.

Just in case you want an alternative for the mplayer plugin .. There are a lot of weird web-pages out there that mplayer plugin is not able to handle.. I had this problem when installing suse for my 60+ old mom. - Remove mplayer plugin (there seems to be no way to disable it in firefox) - Install the following add-on for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446 .. in that add-on you can easily configure an external program that plays for example those .asx and .asf files. The best one I have found (that understands each and every format and every web-page) is kmplayer. An alternative way would be to configure the mimetypes in firefox, but that seems to be somewhat complicated.. Cheers, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 07 October 2008 02:35:42 pm Clayton wrote:

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.. in that add-on you can easily configure an external program that plays for example those .asx and .asf files. The best one I have found (that understands each and every format and every web-page) is kmplayer.

Errr.. KMplayer uses either MPlayer or Xine as it's backend... So... if you were having problems with the mplayer-plugin but kmplayer worked, then I'm guessing that you didn't have the w32codecs installed, and that KMPlayer was configured to use Xine and Gstreamer... or something along those lines.

In my experience, MPlayer and the w32codecs will play everything except DRMed video - just as well as Xine will.

Err.. please go to the following page. ;) http://www.radiojai.com.ar/OnLine/ Then click the tab "Música" and choose any of the radio stations. .. does not play with mplayer plugin, but with kmplayer it works! So why is this? If you look at the address bar in the opening window, you can extract the following line (for example, if you chose the "jasidica" radio station): http://www.rhp.com.ar/canales/jasidico/jasidica6.asx Now if you pass that to mplayer in command line, it does not play a thing. If you pass that same address to kmplayer, it works fine and gives the output: mplayer -wid 65012477 -slave -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao alsa,oss,sdl,arts -framedrop -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -cache 128 'http://www.rhp.com.ar/canales/jasidico/061.wma' -identify The conclusion: it seems that kmplayer does its own processing of the .asx format and then passes the things it finds in the .asx file to mplayer.. Cheers, Sampsa P.S. That was a fine example of those .. extraordinary.. web-pages my mom visits. ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org