Windows Media players

[Claude Jones]

Christopher Bottaro wrote:

Claude Jones wrote:
> Saving to disk is not really an option, as I'm checking files
that are 3
> hours in length, and saving is not necessary for what I need to
do,
> which is fast verification that files are present, and playable
(this is
> related to my work). I hadn't really thought about the
difference
> between plugin and play-in-own-window -- now that you mention
it, it's
> obvious. At one point, I did get to that option in this process,
but I
> couldn't figure out how to specify mplayer or kplayer, or
Kaffeine, or
> whatever. Typing the program name in the dialogue gave me an
> unrecognized program response, and when I tried to browse to the
> program, I couldn't figure out where to find the programs.
Thanks for
> your patience in this matter.

doesn't mplayer allow for playing streams?  i would think the best
approach
is to setup your browser to not use a plugin, but rather launch
mplayer
externally and give it the url of the stream.  i've never had any
success
with browser plugins to play media off the web.

also, if you want all the controls and stuff, you want to run
gmplayer (the
gui front end to mplayer).  its a seperate rpm install from
mplayer.

kinda off topic, but mplayer-1.0-preX sucks for me.  it always
crashes
playing mpeg files (saying it crashed in some decode function). 
mplayer-0.93 plays everything like a dream for me.  compiling from
source
is actually easier than installing from rpm also i've found.

hey, can you post the links to the videos in question?  i want to
see if i
can setup my rig to play them the way you want with mplayer.  if i
get it
working, i'll post instructions.  as of now, my rig is setup to
just
download the entire video, then launch gmplayer to play it
locally.  i've
never really tried to play streaming media with it though.

Christopher: Here's a link you can try. It's not an asx file,
which leads to other issues, but, it's a nice long wm file.
http://www.wlym.com/video/session_09_en_vid.wmv
Thanks for your other suggestions.

Claude Jones