Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko > > >> In your original post you gave 2 URL's >> >> http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows >> >> and >> >> http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp >> >> The first link leads to videos that are flash. However, they are not >> directly played by the flash plugin. There is a wrapper around it >> called "v4.1.0.local 2009-09-03 7:59 PM" which appears not compatible >> with linux. I cannot play them and I don't have Omega to determine if >> it can. >> > > Omega can't play them either. As I can play Flash videos anywhere in > the world... if the tv broadcaster allows them to go outside the > county and unless a special home made plug-in is requested such as at > ABC. > > Do you have any idea can possibly be the use of such a wrapper, except > to prevent Linux from reading the videos? > > >> The second link contains several other links...which was referenced in >> Frank Murphy's response...and to which I replied. Therefore, all of my >> comments were based on Frank's response and dealt only with the second >> link. Those links are not being played by a flash player...but by >> gecko-mediaplayer. >> > > If tou go to Prefrences Applications, you see gecko-mediaplayer listed > for asf, asx and Windows Media??? I doubt it. > > >> FWIW, I don't have totem installed on my Fedora system. And, if you >> look you'd find that gecko-mediaplayer is "mplayer" with a new name. >> > > "Gecko Media Player is a browser plugin that uses GNOME MPlayer to > play media in a browser." > > http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/gecko-mediaplayer > > But, in the Preferences, Applications options, you sometimes have > mplayer, sometimes Gecko Media Player and sometimes GNOME Media > Player. If this is all the same, it's rather confusing. There's also a > MozPlugger option. > > From firefox's about:plugins Windows Media Player Plug-in File name: gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so Gecko Media Player 0.9.8 Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/asx Media Files * Yes video/x-ms-asf-plugin Media Files * Yes video/x-msvideo AVI avi,* Yes video/msvideo AVI avi,* Yes application/x-mplayer2 Media Files * Yes application/x-ms-wmv Microsoft WMV video wmv,* Yes video/x-ms-asf Media Files asf,asx,* Yes video/x-ms-wm Media Files wm,* Yes video/x-ms-wmv Microsoft WMV video wmv,* Yes audio/x-ms-wmv Windows Media wmv,* Yes video/x-ms-wmp Windows Media wmp,* Yes application/x-ms-wmp Windows Media wmp,* Yes video/x-ms-wvx Windows Media wvx,* Yes audio/x-ms-wax Windows Media wax,* Yes audio/x-ms-wma Windows Media wma,* Yes application/x-drm-v2 Windows Media asx,* Yes audio/wav Microsoft wave file wav,* Yes audio/x-wav Microsoft wave file wav,* Yes As I said.... Those videos play just fine on my F12 32 bit system. And mplayer is being used. Your choice to believe it or not. -- Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead. -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic" Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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