-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/2009 07:52 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > 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). Well nice to know that this a reference file. I guess I'll get to work on creating a parser for that crap in gecko-mediaplayer. Kevin - -- Get my public GnuPG key from http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D0BD5D1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqdK1YACgkQ6w2kMH0L1dGeBgCggvZv4Jzh84YT8Vwxy0FVgzUS Ws4AnRP7KbCYe5DGeUlVOaUSpPbbkwOA =H/fq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
