On Tuesday, 3 בFebruary 2009, Amichai Rotman wrote: > I had the same problem when I tried to play content broadcasted by CastUP (a > popular streaming provider).
I encountered two unrelated problems with video streamed from web-sites: 1. Codecs. Easily solved by VLC. I've yet to see a codec unsupported by it. Note that some distros (e.g: Fedora) do not distribute these by default due to specific legal problems (US patents on algorithms). In less bizarre countries this is easily solvable by installing the missing pieces from non-US repositories (e.g: rpmfusion.org for Fedora). Me (non-lawyer) thinks that Israel has no software patents yet so this should be safe (Naive? Don't know). 2. Web sites trying to obfuscate the links from their page to the video stream so people would have to see it interactively instead of (e.g) reaping it to their computer/mp4-player/other-device for off-line viewing at their own leisure. This can usually worked around using "Mazrim" by Ilan Shavit: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mazrim/ Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron "It's almost like we're doing Windows users a favor by charging them money for something they could get for free, because they get confused otherwise." - Larry Wall. _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux