[MPlayer-users] Unable to play streaming video?

[Kevin DeKorte]

Rocco,

Can you give me a path to the video links. The missioncentre link just takes 
me to a generic map page. And I don't read Norwiegian very well. ;)

Kevin

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:03 am, Rocco van der veer wrote:
> 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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