Kai Staats wrote: > On Wednesday 22 November 2006 23:24, Paul Higgins wrote: > >> I've posted a few times about the (limited) success I've had in getting >> various types of multimedia to work in YDL. In particular, I figured out a >> way to get some Flash animations and banners to work on many websites >> (using the Firefox browser--see my previous posts). >> > > Can you plz send that post to me directly? Thanks ... > > > >> Anyway, I was just checking out the IMDB website this evening to view a >> couple trailers, but haven't had much luck. IMDB provides several options >> for streaming: usually WMV, QuickTime, and RealPlayer. WMV and QT are >> pretty much impossible under YDL (Micro$haft won't release a PPC plugin for >> WMV, and likewise Apple won't release a generic Unix QT). RealPlayer does >> work for me on x86 Linux; I installed the RealPlayer for x86 Debian >> (RealPlayer 10 Gold, I think) and the plugin works great with Firefox. Has >> anyone had luck with streaming video using the PPC version of RealPlayer, >> specifically the browser plugin? >> >> I can vouch that the version of RealPlayer that I currently have installed >> (10.0.4) does work really well for streaming audio; I use it all the time >> to listen to various live streams. I just wish that video worked as well. >> Recently I found a newer version of RealPlayer (10.0.5), so maybe I'll try >> installing that. Unfortunately, I think that the previous RealPlayer has >> to be manually uninstalled first (it's not available through yum, Synaptic, >> or any other automated installer). >> > > We are now moving to solidify a set of apps for audio/video recording and > playback. I know RealPlayer works well, as I can watch the videos that Red > Hat has posted on their site. However, the method of saving the video is very > specific to the particular version of RealPlayer available for YDL. > > I will approach Real and see if we can shake loose a more modern version. > > kai > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > > Kai,
PLEASE let the Real Folk know that we will all happily send them tons of e-mail, in support of your request. In fact, you can use that as a threat, if you'd like, in the event that they don't agree. I am sure we could fill their mailbox! Olaf _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
