2013. április 25. 20:29 napon Oszkó Albert írta:

2013-04-25 18:57 keltezéssel, Graham Anderson írta:

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On Thursday 25 Apr 2013 17:48:40 Istvan Gabor wrote:

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Hello:

I would like to watch video clips at the site of the Hungarian TV channel MTV. It site is: www.mtv.hu

A link to such a video is at the sites archive pages:

http://videotar.mtv.hu/Videok/2013/04/25/12/MTV_Hirado_2013_aprilis_25_12_00 .aspx

Unfortunately the site does not work for me, the page is, but the videos are not loading. How could I make it work?

I use firefox 10.x ESR and opera 12.x web browser on oepnSUSE 11.2 and 12.1 and KDE3.

Appears to use MS Silverlight plugin, you could try the moonlight mono plugin but I'd wager that the video in the silverlight stream is encoded with a format that moonlight does not support.

Cheers the noo, Graham

Istvan, try download and install what Graham suggested from here:

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx

It works for me, at least for old TV shows. Did not try the newsreel, it is not available in this moment due to. maintenance. My experience is that Moonlight needs reinstall with when you updat FF.

Regards, Albert

Graham, Albert: Thank you for your replies. I have installed moonlight plugin from the site above. According to that site the plugin's last update date is Apr 12, 2011. The file I downloaded and installed was novell-moonlight-3.99.0.3-i586.xpi. It is shown in firefox addons/plugins window as "Silverlight Plug-in 4.0.51204.0". And it is installed in the extensions directory in a directory named moonlight@novell.com. Is this normal? After restarting firefox I tried to watch a movie. (I have removed all other plugins from firefox, the moonlight plugin is the only plugin shown in firefox plugin window.) When I clicked the movie window a popup window came up, titled and saying: "Moonlight codecs installer" "Would you like to install the required add-on to play the content on this page?" I clicked "Install codecs." Then other popups were shown, an EULA agreement, and one saying the codecs have been successfully installed. Is this normal? I uploaded the screenshots of those popups to here: http://i39.tinypic.com/w8w9om.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/out6wg.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/192i9s.jpg When I try to watch the movie, after clicking the movie window, the popups come again, and again. My computer is behind a firewall, I don't know if it does matter or not. What should I do? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

2013. április 26. 19:51 napon David Haller írta:

Hello,

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Istvan Gabor wrote:

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http://videotar.mtv.hu/Videok/2013/04/25/12/MTV_Hirado_2013_aprilis_25_12_00...

Unfortunately the site does not work for me, the page is, but the videos are not loading.

Grep for 'videoUrl' in that HTML file. You get an URL to a .wmv that actually is a .asx, but you can play that with vlc anyway, i.e.

vlc http://streamer.carnation.hu/mtvod2/hirado/2013/04/25/hirado12_130425.wmv

works here.

Thanks, it works for me too with vlc. (Interestingly, mplayer can not play it). Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

2013. május 5. 15:09 napon David Haller írta:

Hello,

and sorry for the delay

On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Istvan Gabor wrote:

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2013. április 26. 19:51 napon David Haller írta:

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Grep for 'videoUrl' in that HTML file. You get an URL to a .wmv that actually is a .asx, but you can play that with vlc anyway, i.e.

vlc http://streamer.carnation.hu/mtvod2/hirado/2013/04/25/hirado12_130425.wmv

works here.

Thanks, it works for me too with vlc.

Fine :)

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(Interestingly, mplayer can not play it).

The stream gets redirected multiple times and needs to set a cookie or some such (try getting the stream with wget, you'll just get the same redrected URL again and again) and only that's where mplayer fails.

If you dump the stream with e.g.:

cvlc --play-and-exit --sout "file/wmv:out.wmv" $URL

mplayer can play the resulting 'out.wmv' just fine. It's not the actual stream that mplayer can't handle, it's the (in this case IMO also broken) way it's pointed to. From the cvlc output, it finally gets redirected to a mms:// URL and that mplayer could handle (I routinely use mplayer to dump mms:// streams that get pointed to in a sane way).

E.g. the german ZDF offers a "Windows Media Player" stream, the URL points to an asx. mplayer can't play that (so probably no .asx generally). But it's rather easy to just DL that asx and parse that, as with the ZDF streams, it has just one <Ref /> element pointing to a mms://*.wmv URL. And mplayer can play (and dump) that mms:// just fine.

Actually, there's a bunch of programs able to dump the ZDF stuff (e.g. 'Mediathek' from home:enzokiel), but in that case I preferred whipping up my own rather simple perl-script that can easily be (and has been) adapted to other sites. In your case, I just couldn't get to the actual streaming URL (see above). Oh, and I did adapt it (with some cleanups) for "arte" which delivers much more complex xml file before finally linking in the 3rd (or 4th?) step the actual stream URL ;) Both are not very flexible, the zdf works only there and the arte has language and quality hardcoded in regexes ;)

If you're interested, I can mail you both scripts for plundering ;)

David, thanks for your detailed explanation and offer. I am interested in those perl scripts. Could you send them to my e-mail address in tar or zip packed file? Thank you once more, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org