[vox] Re: I'm on (web) TV!

[Bill Kendrick]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:15:46AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> I tried launching RealPlayer manually (rather than embedded insize Moz)
> and gave it the URL below, but it barfed on it immediately.
> I was able to feed it to mplayer to have it play the audio, but no video.
> 
>   rtsp://a980.v06745.c674.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/980/674/3ccdd04/cnetnews.download.akamai.com/674/4n0804linux_1_hi.rm

I had much better luck (again, after hand-assembling an URL based on
some JavaScript junk) getting the "Windows Media" version of the file to
actually display video (and play sound) in Mplayer :^)

Try this:

  mms://a999.v0674e.c674.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/999/674/3ccdde3f/cnetnews.download.akamai.com/674/4n0804linux_1_hi.asf


-bill!
(now, to figure out how to DOWNLOAD, rather than stream... for posterity! ;) )