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%From alexbrennen at gmail.com Fri Apr 21 10:22:46 2006 When I clicked on the "Play Now" button, Firefox popped up a dialog box asking me if I would like to play the rm file with totem or save it to disk. I chose to save it to disk. Then I went back to my shell prompt and did "cat <filename>" which gave me the rtsp stream URL to provide to mplayer on the command line. The downloaded file is just a text file with two URLs in it, the realmedia URL and then another format right below it. If your firefox won't give you an opportunity to save the media file to disk, you can rectify that by going to Edit->Preferences then clicking on the 'File Types' Icon on the left and deleting the file association for rm, ra, and ram files. After deleting the association it should pop-up the "save or play" dialog for you the next time you click on "Play Now". -SLK-06Apr21> Thanks! All that info was very helpful. I think the LIVE.COM libraries issue is an errant error message from mplayer when the real problem is that it was not able to process the URL. -SLK-06Apr21> Right, seem so. If you are using something like gentoo, you may have to get the "essential codecs package" and "other binary codecs packages" from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html -SLK-06Apr21> I'm using RHEL4, and have already downloaded it all. and the command that I used to start downloading the same presentation: vab at sts-01:~$ mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile wilczek.rm \ rtsp://a114.v128006.c12800.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/114/12800/v0001\ /mitworld.download.akamai.com/12800/mitw-ford-nobel-universe-strange-wilcze\ k-07mar2005-220k.rm If it still doesn't work for you when you copy and past the url out of the downloaded file, let me know. -SLK-06Apr21> And now it also works for me. Wonderful! V. Alex Brennen alexbrennen at gmail.com http://cryptnet.net/people/vab/ %From alexbrennen at gmail.com Fri Apr 21 10:30:48 2006 It was just a type-o in the URL. I'm pretty sure you have all the libs you need. -SLK-06Apr21> Well, the command-line version $mplayer wilczek.rm works, although not in the background. The gui version, gmplayer, doesn't work, but gives this error message: Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30335652. Realplayer plays wilczek.rm well too. -- Thanks again, Steve
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