Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:22:28 +0200
lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200
> > lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:
...
> >> like someone else would and it doesn't work, so I have no reason to
> >> believe that it would work for someone else. And there was someone else
> >> here for whom it didn't work either.
> >
> > And there are those for whom it does work.
>
> And where are these people? And why would it work for them and not for
> me?
I'm one of them, and I have no idea why it doesn't work for you, but I
should note that it doesn't always work for me on all sites, either.
...
> >> > [I'm not particularly interested
> >> > in watching / listening in a browser, so I usually use the plugin
> >> > to start up some mplayer processes, then use 'ps ax | grep
> >> > mplayer' to get the stream url and feed it to vlc to save the stream.
> >> > Yes, I know mplayer itself can save streams, but vlc has been
> >> > much more reliable for me.]
> >>
> >> Why not use wget?
> >
> > If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the content
> > from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)?
>
> You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't have an
> URL to try it with.
I'm pretty sure wget doesn't handle such urls.
Celejar
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