On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:15:05AM -0600, Kevin DeKorte wrote: > I'm having some issues playing a video from pbs.org, is there anything I > can do to try and playlist one? > > [kdekorte@quad ~]$ mplayer > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/eu-doubled.mov Oh dear, what a horrible setup. $ strings -n15 eu-doubled.mov url nova_eu_3012c01_ref.mov url nova_eu_3012c01_caps.mov So http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/nova_eu_3012c01_caps.mov has the subtitles. $ strings -n15 nova_eu_3012c01_ref.mov nova_eu_3012c01_mp4_ref.mov nova_eu_3012c01_hi_ref.mov nova_eu_3012c01_lo_ref.mov More reference files, leading to e.g. http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/wgbh/http/nova_eu/nova_eu_3012c01_mp4_ref.mov Hey, guess what? More reference files! Leading to e.g. http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/wgbh/http/nova_eu/nova_eu_3012c01_mp4_300.mov Can you guess what it is? Yes, it is a reference file. Some people just never heard of HTTP redirect, and are stuck in "when all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail" mode. Well, actually it's "if all you have is QuickTime, ...", but nevermind. Btw. it points to http://a768.g.akamai.net/5/768/142/3f9e9589/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c01_mp4_300.mov which plays just fine in MPlayer (though not with -demuxer lavf?). Sorry, no subtitles though, no idea if/how it would be possible to munge them in from that very first referenced file. There are probably some higher/different quality versions there if you follow some other "reference chain". I hope you understand that I almost feel it is a good thing that MPlayer does not follow all this mess... (though I have to admit that someone did try to implement trying to follow all those references in MPlayer, it just stops working at some point - though honestly I think that might be something that a frontend can hack together better). _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
