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

[Karsten M. Self]

on Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:23:53AM -0700, Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net) wrote:
> 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

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