[dundee] vsound?

[Dan Bolser]

2008/10/14 James Le Cuirot <chewi at aura-online.co.uk>:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:58:39 +0200
> "Dan Bolser" <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK, that works fine for the rm, but what about the weird smi that
>> nothing but helix will play (I hope I'm wrong) Its under the
>> 'bioterorism ram', perhaps too controversial for anyone but a licence
>> paying windows person to see...
>>
>> rtsp://meetstream.cshl.org:554/AtlasKeynoteGenome01/k/atlas.smi
>
> I don't have Real/Helix Player installed but that plays fine through
> mplayer on my Gentoo system as long as I include the -playlist option.
> That option (which I think should be automatic!) makes mplayer treat
> the given file/URL as a playlist rather than a video itself. That .smi
> file simply points to another RealVideo stream.

Ahhh...  a playlist within a playlist! I'm slowly beginning to understand :-)


>> It doesn't. I can post more debugging output later (when I am back
>> home) - no one on #mplayer could help me make sense of it... seems
>> that mplayer has problems with authentication and or it can't play the
>> resulting format... I forget the details. I'll post more information
>> later. In the mean time I would be interested to know if you can play
>> the SMI
>
> For some reason, I took the assumption that HTTP authentication was
> being used. It looks like cookies are being used instead. In that case,
> login with Firefox/Mozilla and then run mplayer with the -cookies
> option. You might also need the -cookies-file option and give the
> location of your cookies.txt file.

Thanks for the tip - I'll give it a go and let you know - It'll be
really great if I can just rip these using mplayer.

>
> James
>
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