[Wolves] viewing ram movies in debian

[Matt Wright]

Mplayer is in apt-get already!!

Matt

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Oliver" <p.d.oliver@mavit.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Wolves] viewing ram movies in debian


> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Aquarius wrote:
>
> > Jono Bacon spoo'd forth:
> > > Hmmm it appears mplayer is not packaged for debian,
> > > and maybe not packaged for a while due to some bits of
> > > non-GPL code in there.
> > > There also seems to be no deb's on the mplayer site.
> > > :(
>
> <grin>  You can apt-get it for Redhat :-)
>
> > Download it. There are instructions therein about  how  to  build
> > an mplayer deb -- it comes with a debian/rules and so on.
> >
> > > IT looks pretty impressive though and does play all
> > > RealPlayer formats as well as Windows Media Player and
> > > others.
>
> I beg to differ:
>
> $ mplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/ram/dsatg2.ram
> ...
> Cache fill:  0.16% (67 bytes)    ============ Sorry, this file format is
not recognized/supported =============
> === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author!
===
>
> I've never really got on with mplayer, anyway.  More of a Xine man,
> myself.
>
> > > Does anyone know if there is a Mozilla plugin for
> > > mplayer?
>
> plugger.  http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html
>
> > Why would you want one?
>
> To save yourself the trouble of groping through the html to pick out the
> URL of the stream.  Examples of sites that expect the real plugin include
> "http://www.roughtraderecords.com/sound/libertines_2.html" and
> "http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1.shtml".  The BBC radio player is
> bobbins and I end up doing that anyway, but that's another story...
>
> Incidentally, although RealPlayer 8 for Unix includes a browser plugin,
> RealPlayer 9 does not.
>
> --
> Peter Oliver
>
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>
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