web multimedia procols.

[Robin Laing]

Robin Laing wrote:

> I have the codecs installed and tried to open them in mplayer by using 
> the url.  It didn't want to work.  I will play with it some more.
> 
> I would like to have them open with either mplayer plugin or something 
> within mozilla.  I was looking for the mime type to do this as well. It 
> would be easier as these are part of a bigger package and the links are 
> provided as part of the lesson.
> 
> I may have dones something wrong as it was close to the end of the 
> working day.
> 
> I will give the various tools a try with the URL as I have some time today.
> 
> I did take the time to email the providers of the packages and complain 
> as one of the software packages that I am trying to learn is Linux based.
> 

Well I tried videolan client, xine and mplayer but none would work.  I 
didn't get any messages from any of the links.

  mplayer mms://trog.ni.com/ni/webevents/lv/lv_datastorage_fast.wmv
  xine mms://trog.ni.com/ni/webevents/lv/lv_datastorage_fast.wmv

Now I don't know if I have an issue with firewalls or serverside 
restrictions.  At least xine gave me a message that xine failed to 
open the mrl.

More testing.

-- 
Robin Laing