[MPlayer-users] Unable to play streaming video?

[Rocco van der veer]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply!

i have forwarded your email to the webmaster of that site, and he has made some
changes. The endresult is that mplayer plugin now loads, but fails with : The
plug-in initialization failed. Reload the page to try again. Still looks like
there is a problem with the page. By the way, i use this URL:
http://www.missioncentre.nl/index.asp?pg=5&subpg=&KlantID=385, and from there
click on one of the Video links. I can ask the webmaster of www.missioncentre.nl
to make changes, I have no infuence with the original page www.imb.org.

I would really really appreciate it if you could have another look, and let us
know if we could make a change to the page, so mplayer would work!!!

On Tue Oct 19 11:23 , Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte at yahoo.com> sent:

>On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:05 am, Rocco van der Veer wrote:
>> I am a Linux Beginner, and I am setting up a Linux system for a customer
>> of mine. The possibility of using (or not using) Linus rests on one
>> thing, the Linux OS, (Mplayer) should be able to play streaming video on
>> a certain URL.
>>
>> Mplayer works on my system, and I can open quite a few links containing
>> streaming video, apart from this URL:
>> http://www.imb.org/videolink/viewer.asp\?speed=cable&ProgKey=971.
>>
>> The player does not even recognize the Link and does not open the video.
>> When using Win Mediaplayer, no problem.
>>
>> Any ideas, suggestions??/
>>
>> With regards,
>>
>> Rocco van der Veer.
>
>From the HTML on that page
>
>
>CLASSID=CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6>
>value=True>http://www.imb.org/aids/asx/Intro_175.asx>
> 
>
>You'll notice that the OBJECT specified is using the CLASSID property to 
>specify Windows Media Player. Mozilla does not pass this information to any 
>plugin, so mplayer addons like mplayerplug-in are not notified that there is 
>media to be played. And so mplayer cannot process the file. If the source 
>page had a type attribute (this is a mimetype) specified that would help 
>alot. 
>
>If you install mplayerplug-in and have the user click on the download option 
>it will play the media in the browser.
>
>Kevin
>


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