[MPlayer-users] cannot views streams fr some video news sources

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:55 -0700, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:39:16 -0700 (PDT)
> john znuck <wlwireless at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > could someone pls try them out and tell me why?
> 
> CNN works for me, and I suspect NYT would as well if I had SWF (not a
> mplayer issue).
> 
> Not being psychic, I can't tell you why it doesn't work for you.


He's probably seeing something like this.  Here is an email I sent to
the Times recently.  Hopefully they'll get their collective heads from
up their collective <whatevers>, but it's not likely.  This particular
problem arose with the standard Flash plugin, but very likely mplayer
will fail in the same way.

From: Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>
To: NYTimes.com Feedback <feedback at nytimes.com>
Subject: Flash vs. Firefox
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:39:06 -0700

frequently get an error message saying that
    To view New York Times Video, you must have browser
    Cookies enabled, Macromedia Flash Player, and a supported
    Browser/Operating System/Media Player configuration.

I have a Flash plugin installed on my computer, which works fine
on all the other flash sites that I have tested.  My system is
Linux running Firefox-1.5.

This error message appears, for example, when I press the "+"
for "More Video" that appears in the Flash movie trailer in
your article on "The War Tapes"; the trailer itself displays
perfectly.

I strongly suggest that you start supporting Firefox.  Firefox,
which you don't support, has about a 10% market share, while
Safari, which you do support has only about 3%.  It would be nice
if you also supported Linux, which -- though it has a market
share of less than 1% -- is slowly gaining in popularity.

I suggest even more strongly that you don't put in a test that
prevents an operating system and/or browser from displaying
content that they would be perfectly able to display if not
prevented by this superfluous and useless test.

Thank you very much - Jonathan Ryshpan