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  • Subject: Re: [BL] mplayer plugin
  • Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:22:09 +1200

Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> I searched for mplayerplug-in and found only that one
> version. Perhaps it should be spelled differently.

http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_view.php?by=name&name=mplayerplug-in&ver=

> Firefox does have the advantage here.
> (Is there some way to remove the icons in the toolbars?).

As I said before, right-click on icon and edit
the resultant config screen.

> How do I use the plugin after copying the two files
> to /plugins and /components?

Restart Firefox, then enter about:plugins

> mplayer directly will not play KOSU Oklahoma
> mms://kwms.kosu.okstate.edu/Live
> It is missing some codec.

I get a connection timeout. Nothing to do with codec.

> mplayer does not seem to handle smil (Lyric radio Ireland)

That smil file is a playlist file. The actual URL is:
rtsp://live2.rte.ie/redundant/1920.ra

> It must have taken you longer to write this script
> than I spent compiling!

It took around half an hour to write and debug the script.
Writing bash scripts is fun. Compiling complicated
source code is boring (at best) or extremely frustrating.

> Does it take noticeably longer to start playing
> streaming audio with this script?

No. There is obviously a delay while nslookup queries
your DNS server; however, mplayer would experience the
same delay if it had to do the DNS query. So the script
itself slows things down a bit, but then mplayer starts
faster.

Cheers,
Steven




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