[MPlayer-users] How do I play this file?

[Kevin DeKorte]

On Saturday 28 May 2005 06:51 am, John McKee wrote:
> I have the mplayer plugin installed, so I expected something when I clicked
> on the link on the NASA web page.  The plugin started, and it began
> buffering.  I have a dialup connection, so I don't know if I just ddin't
> wait long enough.  I saw the display change to something like 30 percent
> buffered.  Would it have eventually played?
>
> I then saved the link to disk and attempted to play it via mplayer.   Using
> mplayer with no options just returned an end of file.  When I added
> -playlist, this is what I received:
>
> Playing <?xml version="1.0"?>.
> File not found: '<?xml version="1.0"?>'
> Failed to open <?xml version="1.0"?>
>
>
> Playing <?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>.
> File not found: '<?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>'
> Failed to open <?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>
>
>
> Playing <embed src="http://cc.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/050523-voyager.qt.smil"
> autoplay="true" />. Unable to open URL: <embed
> src="http://cc.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/050523-voyager.qt.smil" autoplay="true"
> />
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Here is what the file looks like:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>
> <?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>
>
> <embed src="http://cc.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/050523-voyager.qt.smil"
> autoplay="true" />
>
>
>
>
> Can either mplayer or mplayer plugin play this?  If so, how?  I even tried
> using Windows 2000 and that also failed.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> John McKee
>


You must be using an old version of mplayerplug-in. I pasted this link into my 
browser > http://cc.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/050523-voyager.qt.smil < and it 
worked perfectly.

I'm using mplayerplug-in CVS and MPlayer dev-CVS-050506-17:02-3.4.3

Kevin

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