On Sunday 22 October 2006 23:14, James wrote: > I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using > espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the > Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones > and which plugins work best? > > Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if > so any caveats or gotchas?
Last time I tried it didn't work with gxine, or xine. As far as I can recall the reason was that this website is using active-x scripting to establish a SSL connection and the Linux apps/plugins do not (yet) have a way of parsing that. Otherwise, either xine or mplayer will happily play wmp streams. It may be more complicated than what I am alluding to above, but that's as far as my understanding could take me. ;-) You could always write to the website master/admin and ask them to provide you with a link that works without active-x, but they are such an exclusive M$haft shop I'd wager you get a "we do not support anything else than Billy Gate's shareholders . . ." type of response. -- Regards, Mick
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