[gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?

[gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?

[James]

Hello,

I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using
espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the
Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones
and which plugins work best?

Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if
so any caveats or gotchas?

James



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Re: [gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Sunday 22 October 2006 19:14, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using
> espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the
> Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones
> and which plugins work best?
>
> Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if
> so any caveats or gotchas?
>
> James
I use kmplayer embeded in konqueror to watch wmp media streams of football 
games at liverpoolfc.tv  No idea if it will work with firefox. It's not a 
specific plugin, in fact thinking about it I not sure exactly how it 
works :-)  But I got it working so it can't be that difficult.  Check out the 
gentoo wiki.  That's the first place I usually go to get info on these sorts 
of things.  You need mplayer obviously and it needs to be compiled with 
win32codecs.
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?

[Ryan Tandy]

James wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using
> espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the
> Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones
> and which plugins work best?
> 
> Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if
> so any caveats or gotchas?
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 

If you're using Firefox or any other Netscape-compatible browser 
(Epiphany, Seamonkey), try mplayerplug-in with USE="win32codecs".
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Re: [gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?

[Mick]

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On Sunday 22 October 2006 23:14, James wrote:

> I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using
> espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the
> Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones
> and which plugins work best?
>
> Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if
> so any caveats or gotchas?

Last time I tried it didn't work with gxine, or xine.  As far as I can recall 
the reason was that this website is using active-x scripting to establish a 
SSL connection and the Linux apps/plugins do not (yet) have a way of parsing 
that.  Otherwise, either xine or mplayer will happily play wmp streams.  It 
may be more complicated than what I am alluding to above, but that's as far 
as my understanding could take me.  ;-)

You could always write to the website master/admin and ask them to provide you 
with a link that works without active-x, but they are such an exclusive 
M$haft shop I'd wager you get a "we do not support anything else than Billy 
Gate's shareholders . . ." type of response.
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Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: espn(wmp) on firefox?

[James]

Ryan Tandy <tarpman <at> tarpman.homelinux.com> writes:


> > I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using
> > espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the
> > Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones
> > and which plugins work best?

> If you're using Firefox or any other Netscape-compatible browser 
> (Epiphany, Seamonkey), try mplayerplug-in with USE="win32codecs".


Cool, I'll give it a shot and repost if it does not work.

Thanks

James

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