Best player for Microsoft ASX Playlist?

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Hi,
I wish to play a training video. When I click on the link I get a prompt to open with RealPlayer. Since I do not think I have RealPlayer installed I checked the link and it an .asx file.
I guess it is a link for streaming the video.
Whatever, which playing software should I install? I am aware of the multimedia tutorial on this site but am not clear on my objective as there are so many player options apparently available. It would help if I knew what I should be using to play these videos.
Budgie2

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Following on from above I thought I would try mplayer and mplayerplug-in as these are often recommended in this forum. I tried to install and had an error message:-
nothing provides libfridibi.so.0. What on earth is that about?

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Why not:

  1. simply click on OK to see what happens (when it works, no need to ask this question, when it doesn’t we are interested in an eventual error message)?

  2. check if RealPlayer is installed and install it when not onstalled? YaST > Software > Software Management and ‘realplayer’ in the Search field. That would make thi certain as well as for you as for us.

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It isn’t and I cannot find it. I have the four key repo sites active as advised on this forum so which repo site has realplayer?

Thanks for the reply.
Budgie2

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I just checked with Webpin and it seems that realplayer is in the non-oss repo for 11.0, but for 11.1 and 11.2 nothing is found.

Can a multimedia guru here unveil what can be used instead?

Something else I miss: you say you click on the link, I suppose you do this from a browser. Which one?

BTW @Budgie2, it might be as logical to you as to me that you tried to click OK, but when you are around these forums longer you will find out that you should never take for granted that people behave logical as you see it. When they do not tell that they did something, never take it for granted they did. In any case you did not tell what happened when you clicked OK. And because you could not tell if RealPlayer is installed on your system or not, I went for the worse, but I admit that it is easy to err about ones Linux knowledge from reading his short post.

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VLC plays about every format

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Install Mplayer and mplayer-plugin.

Did you follow the Restricted Format guide? Don’t give up, these days it’s possible to play any media files on linux.

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Is it online, that you could let us see it?

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Hi all,
Many thanks for the continued help. I gave up on realplayer and started over with mplayer and mplayerplug-in. Clearly they are working but I get a stopped message as soon as the player starts to play. The link is below but I am not sure that it is available to non “Select” users.

Building eSeminars from Bentley

OTOH I get exactly the same problem with the apple movie trailer site even when I spoof the apple player. I have posted on that thread also but will stay here and see if anybody has any luck with the above link. (Sorry I cannot copy link properly, perhaps somebody could put me right here please.)

Many thanks,
Budgie2

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Further to this, could it be a firewall issue. I have tried turning off the openSUSE firwall but I still have the network firewall box in place. What ports and protocols shoul I be allowing?

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Hi
Install the moonlight-plugin.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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It works for me.
gnome mplayer from packman and the gecko-mediaplayer from RedDwarf

see my guide
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

[EDIT]
I see Malcolm has provided 11.1 links for you in another thread.

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Hi Malcolm,
A thousand thanks for the 11.1 versions of gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer. Moonlight plugin didn’t do it but after installing the two players all now seems OK.

I confess I am miles out of my depth here; several media players and plug-ins installed. How on earth is the right one selected? I’m just relieved it works.
Thanks again,
Budgie2

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Hi and many thanks. Malcolm’s links did the trick. Thanks also for your excellent how to faq. I had already used it before posting but that hadn’t fixed these particular streams.
Thanks again,
Budgie2

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Hi
The gnome/gecko combination is IMHO about the best combination to avoid
issues like you were having. If you want to watch apple trailers, you
need to add a user agent switcher add-on, this may also apply to other
sites as well.

On this system I run fluendo and of course have the novell moonlight
which works on that site, but on the netbook (11.2) I use what you
use :wink:

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 3 days 20:07, 4 users, load average: 0.59, 0.46, 0.33
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