On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Patrick Wiseman: > > http://www.minack.com/dayvisitors/stream.html > > > > My system is amd64, testing. The media player plugin is > > Totem<http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/> > > 2.22.2. I get a failure to load Media Player at the above site. Any > > thoughts? > > The Totem media player plugin works pretty well these days. > This appears to be one of those rare cases where it doesn't yet. > In these cases it usually works to find the stream address and play it > with the standalone Totem player. > > In Iceape: View > Page Info, tab 'Media' > or in Iceweasel: Tools > Page Info, tab 'Media'. > > There you'll find the address of the stream: > > http://stream11.finetra.co.uk/minack > > which can be played with Totem: > > totem http://stream11.finetra.co.uk/minack > > Works fine here, using Totem 2.22.2. > Thanks - that command prompted me to download some additional codecs, which I did, and it worked from the command line. (It still doesn't work in the browser, but that's OK, now that I know how to find the stream address, for which I also thank you!) Patrick
