What file is needed to play videos on CSPAN?
I can play videos on other sites, What is different about CSPAN?
> What file is needed to play videos on CSPAN?
CALLING ALL USA CITIZENS–know what is going on in your own country:
i watch C-SPAN using Firefox with its mediaplayerconnectivity 0.9.1 add
on from <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446>
well, mine is SuSE 10.3 and i followed the “Hacking openSUSE 10.3” guide
at <http://tinyurl.com/6r84sb> [NOTE: there is no “Hacking openSUSE
11.0” see, <http://tinyurl.com/6albh9>]
this is what i do (after the above are installed and working):
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for currently broadcasting on C-SPAN, go to <http://tinyurl.com/5vb3u>
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click on the Windows “stand alone player” which opens a Firefox side bar
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click on the media link there…quickly a little TV screen will pop up
OUTSIDE of the Firefox window…wait a few seconds while it caches, and
then watch… -
you may then close that CSPAN page, or even close Firefox, and
continue watching…
[it MAY be that you can also click on the Realplayer links on the C-SPAN
page, i don’t know…if it works, don’t fix it!]
enjoy! (when i moved to Denmark i very much missed a daily dose of the
Circus on the Hill…with broadband i can now see this important,
exciting and often overly entertaining 24x7x365 show!!)
–
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
Here’s how I currently stream (watch) CSPAN:
Use the OPEN URL option (with Kaffeine, VLC or mPlayer) and plug in:
http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx
(for CSPAN 1)
or
http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan2v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx
(for CSPAN 2)
HTH