On Monday 19 February 2007, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote: >On Monday 19 February 2007 1:34:24 am Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 18 February 2007, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote: >> >rtsp://srv1.mel.apstream.net/encoder/rrrlive.rm >> >> Apparently is an un-supported protocol here, I have yum doing a >> whatprovides on it now. It came back that vlc wasn't there, and I had >> to nuke the livna and put in the atprms version, but that didn't fix >> the missing file association in FF. > >Hmmm, not sure what you mean here, but the only way your going to get rm >working is to use xine-1.1.2, as myself and some others have found. >There has not been much, if any response from the xine devs as yet, I'll >perhaps check the xine-devel list later, > >> But while that did fix some of the missing tabs in xine now, it didn't >> fix FF. I have the protocols list on screen now, what do I *add* to >> bring this to life? > >I guess you mean to play streams within FF? you need the > kaffeine-mozilla plugin, which I believe is not in the Repo's yet, >Its just a matter of builiding it and dropping the kaffeineplugin.so > into your HOME.mozilla/plugins or however you have yours setup. > >http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/ > >Ric mentioned RealPlayer or Helix, but personally its worth the effort > to avoid those imo :) > Well, Realplayer can be a problem child but has *usually* worked, Helix OTOH, seems to suffer from an attempt to lock the user into whatever protocol they support, M$ style embrace and extend I guess. I have NDI whats in my rpm database for helix, but when I'd had enough, I ran a locate and nuked anything that fell out. When I put FC6 on in place of FC2 on this box, I never let helix anywhere near it. Once case of food poisoning from that was enough. >HTH > >Colin >-- >Fedora Core 6 ("Zod") >KDE-Redhat-3.5.6-4.fc6 >Registered Linux user number #342953 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
