Distro hopping again: freespire

[Robin Laing]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 16/07/07, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
>> On Sun July 15 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> > But the Windows Media stuff is one of my biggest
>> > problems in Fedora/*buntu,
>>
>> What's the problem? I've got it working in several different distros, 
>> in fact
>> I've not found a distro I couldn't get it to work in. I did discover
>> recently, a change in the way mplayerplug-in installs itself, on at 
>> least two
>> occasions - perhaps this just has to do with the way it was packaged. 
>> If you
>> click on a Windows Media file after following the proper procedure for
>> installing the codecs and mplayer and mplayerplug-in (I still 
>> recommend the
>> outline posted way back by Stanton Finley which continues to work well 
>> for F7
>> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html) and 
>> the file
>> doesn't play, try right-clicking on the player window and looking at the
>> configuration settings. On at least two occasions recently, I found 
>> that the
>> video and audio output fields weren't filled in - I've found X11 and 
>> Alsa to
>> generally work, respectively, but your mileage may vary.
>>
>> -- 
>> Claude Jones
>> Brunswick, MD, USA
> 
> Thanks, Claude. My main problem is MMS streams. For my university
> lectures, I need full MMS stream support. That means not downloading
> the full stream, but watching it online, including FF, rewind, pause,
> slow/fast play, etc. Until now I've been watching them in VMWare
> running XP. I hate WMP, but I cannot get mPlayer to play these
> streams, not even in the VM on Windows.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
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> 

Have you tried to play mms streams with mplayer and the CLI?

See the man page.

mms streams are blocked at the firewall so I cannot test.

Using the arrow keys, you may be able to move forward and backward. 
Again, see the man page for instructions.


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