Re: Best Way to Look at Streaming Video
I want to correct one point in my origina post, and thank everyone for their responses. On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Discussion a few months ago mentioned http://marillat.free.fr/ both for the realplayer for Debian package (which no longer seems to be there) and for mplayer (about which there were mixed comments). realplayer is available at the site; it's just that there is not version specifically under testing. This fooled me into thinking it wasn't there. By the way, I tried installing mplayer off of testing at the site, but there are some dependency problems blocking it right now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Way to Look at Streaming Video
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Discussion a few months ago mentioned http://marillat.free.fr/ both for the realplayer for Debian package (which no longer seems to be there) and for mplayer (about which there were mixed comments). I see several packages providing quicktime support (xine, xmovie, xanim) and don't know if one is obviously better (or better at integrating into mozilla). Any thoughts? marillat also offers the mplayer-mozilla plugin which allows mplayer to be embedded into mozilla and play the filetypes supported by mplayer. The only caveat is that it does not yet support any sort of cookies or authentication. If that is a necessity your best bet is probably the Crossover plugin from Codeweavers. I believe there are similar types of plugins for Xine but I don't have any experience with them. --Chris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Best Way to Look at Streaming Video
--82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I wanted to look at a video on a web site that offered it in RealPlayer, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player format. To my suprise (since I had installed RealPlayer) I couldn't, and this led to some questions that perhaps people here could answer. =20 Which of these formats would be the best choice for Debian (I do have some windows partitions, though I don't think I've installed any of the recent MediaPlayer stuff)? Ideally, I want it to work through my mozilla 1.4 browser, built with gcc 3.3. =20 What are the best tools to view these formats? My favorite media player of all time is mplayer. It is amazing! It outshines every other media player ever conceived. You can get the source from: http://www.mplayerhq.hu There are unofficial deb files somewhere on the net, but this is one program that is worth compiling from source. It handles windows media player natively. And with the appropriate plugins (available on the site) it can handle quicktime and real formats as well. The next big release (1.0 should be out any day now) will have native quicktime (with some older native real stuff) included. Discussion a few months ago mentioned http://marillat.free.fr/ both for the realplayer for Debian package (which no longer seems to be there) and for mplayer (about which there were mixed comments). This source should have binaries of mplayer. I see several packages providing quicktime support (xine, xmovie, xanim) and don't know if one is obviously better (or better at integrating into mozilla). Again there is some mozilla plugin to integrate stuff in, I usually extract the url and feed it to mplayer. That works for me. Bijan --=20 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SvyEUof+95vTyAwRAlNAAJ4yefoeObvnr7nUYHe8V6JnvBVvdwCfV2iR Pr1Nj8Nkstjj5hCQQ3of9z4= =nmCP -END PGP SIGNATURE- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Way to Look at Streaming Video
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:22:19 -0700 Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to look at a video on a web site that offered it in RealPlayer, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player format. To my suprise (since I had installed RealPlayer) I couldn't, and this led to some questions that perhaps people here could answer. Which of these formats would be the best choice for Debian (I do have some windows partitions, though I don't think I've installed any of the recent MediaPlayer stuff)? Ideally, I want it to work through my mozilla 1.4 browser, built with gcc 3.3. I've not yet found any universal solution, but I am awfully happy with gxine. Sadly, it's not a Debian package, but it's a very simple compile - just a frontend to xine, really. It deals with web media far better than mplayer-plugin did for me. While I prefer (g)mplayer's interface for watching full length movies/TV, gxine is nice and simple - good for catching a quick clip when you don't want to fish around for buttons and menus. -- Todd Pytel Signature attached PGP Key ID 77B1C00C pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
