Has she tried opening the streaming URL directly from Mplayer rather than
relying on the browser plug-in? Sometimes that works... .
Also, this is the full URL on the link button...
javascript:GetSelectedChannel('
http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx','http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram','http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335main_NASA_TV_QT.qtl'
)
...that implies that there are several streams...
http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx // windows media?
http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335main_NASA_TV_QT.qtl // quicktime?
http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram // real video?
Sean
On 12/6/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:31:51PM +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
> > My mother wants to watch the shuttle launch tomorrow. She has feisty
> > with all updates and has VLC and the VLC plug in installed along with
> > w32codecs, but when she tries to watch NASA TV it comes up with message
> > about the browser not having the right plugins! The message comes from
> > the NASA WEB site, so I guess there must be some checking happening that
> > is not working. It did work briefly, but I think NASA may have changed
> > some things in the last day or so.
> >
> > Anyone else got this problem and/or found a fix?
> >
>
> You didnt provide a URL, so I googled and assume this is what you're
> talking
> about?
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
>
> I just tried visiting this (albeit not in Ubuntu) on a brand new Asus Eee
> PC
> running Xandros and it Just Works. Worth noting that it uses mplayer with
> the mplayer mozilla plugin (which I do indeed also use under Ubuntu), so
> would assume it will work on my Ubuntu laptop too).
>
> I would use the package manager to install the mozila-mplayer package.
> Interestingly I also use this package to play real media based streams
> such
> as the BBC, and again, it Just Works.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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