[opensuse] Mplayer and Yahoo conference calls

2007-07-26 Thread John Andersen
I use Mplayer (the default player suggested by Suse/KDE for conference calls from http://biz.yahoo.com/cc ) to listen to financial conference calls. In windows, starting any archived call triggers it to start immediately. (using media player). Mplayer launches, Clicks, and then just sits there

Re: [opensuse] Mplayer and Yahoo conference calls

2007-07-26 Thread Sunny
On 7/26/07, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use Mplayer (the default player suggested by Suse/KDE for conference calls from http://biz.yahoo.com/cc ) to listen to financial conference calls. In windows, starting any archived call triggers it to start immediately. (using media player)

Re: [opensuse] Mplayer and Yahoo conference calls

2007-07-27 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 26 July 2007, Sunny wrote: > Most probably the first delay is because of the buffering. How big the > buffer (cache) is, and other options can be set trough a config file: > No i don't think its a buffering issue. The recordings usual

Re: [opensuse] Mplayer and Yahoo conference calls

2007-07-28 Thread Stevens
On Saturday 28 July 2007 00:11, John Andersen wrote: > > No i don't think its a buffering issue. The recordings usually run an hour > and the delay is at least 20 minutes before any sound is heard. Buffering > might take 30 seconds, but not 20 minutes. When it finally does start > playing it wil

Re: [opensuse] Mplayer and Yahoo conference calls

2007-07-28 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 28 July 2007, Stevens wrote: > The only problems that I have had with VB is that there are some apps that > use direct-x that won't work with the software video card and the USB ports > aren't seen as connecting to the virtual machine. I Well I have both Vmware Workstation and Vmware P

Re: [opensuse] Mplayer and Yahoo conference calls

2007-07-29 Thread Sunny
On 7/28/07, Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John: > > From Linux desktop, click VirtualBox, start XP, open IE, url to conference > call, click on link. VOILA!!! Instant sound on the desktop under Linux with > WMP. I just tested it on my system and it works here. > > "Never use a flat blade s

Re: [opensuse] Mplayer and Yahoo conference calls

2007-07-29 Thread Stevens
On Sunday 29 July 2007 09:13, Sunny wrote: > > So, as you have made the first step, make the rest - mail yahoo and > complain that their streams are broker (or not working properly under > linux), and file a bug report at mplayer-hq.hu, so the guys behind > mplayer can investigate the problem. > >