Hi folks, I have followed the instructions which I have found, and have nearly got Windows media streaming working okay … but it’s not quite there.
For example, the WMV video at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090107-5.wm.v.html plays fine in Firefox, but without sound. There is a volume control button, but nothing happens when it is left-clicked, and a right-click bring up the config menu for mplayer plugin.
However, checking the page source I found the URL for the video stream, and at the command prompt the following played the video fine without sound:
vlc http://mfile.akamai.com/5913/wmv/whitehouse.download.akamai.com/5913/2009/01/20090107-5.v.asx
The next thing I tried is the WMA-steaming radio station http://www.revfmradio.com/, where live audio is in a popup window at http://radio.securenetsystems.net//radio_player_large.cfm?stationCallSign=KRVL. When the window opens in Firefox, the play-progress box briefly flashes a blue progress line, but then is replaced by a grey-backgrounded word “stopped”.
Again, I checked the stream URL, which in this case is http://streamer3.securenetsystems.net/KRVL … and at a command prompt a vlc command worked fine:
vlc vlc http://streamer3.securenetsystems.net/KRVL
So this appears to be an Mplayer or Mplayer-plugin problem, and I haven’t found any specific guidance. Can anyone help to point me in the right direction?
I don’t know how relevant they are to this case, but the following is the result of the diagnostic tests suggested in the sticky post at the top of this forum
linux-mnmh:~ # uname -a
Linux linux-mnmh 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.43
alsa-1.0.18-8.9
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.13
alsa-oss-32bit-1.0.17-1.37
linux-mnmh:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
# u1Nb.iJWhLrosxI5:ThinkPad T61
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
linux-mnmh:~ #
… and the following is the diag output requested in the Check your multimedia problem in ten steps post:
linux-mnmh:~ # LC_ALL=C zypper ve
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied.
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} -> %{VENDOR}
' | grep -i VideoLAN
libdvdcss -> VideoLAN Project (http://www.videolan.org)
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} -> %{VENDOR}
' | grep -i VideoLAN
libdvdcss -> VideoLAN Project (http://www.videolan.org)
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} -> %{VENDOR}
' | grep -i VideoLAN
libdvdcss -> VideoLAN Project (http://www.videolan.org)
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm --query --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH} -> %{VENDOR}
' libxine1 libxine1-codecs
libxine1-1.1.15-44.pm.2-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
libxine1-codecs-1.1.15-44.pm.2-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm --verify --query --all '*xine*'
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm --query --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH} -> %{VENDOR}
' gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg-0.10.6-42.pm.1-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-0.10.7-42.pm.2-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10.15-42.pm.1-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux-0.10.4-42.pm.1-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.8-42.pm.2-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.21-42.pm.2-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.10-42.pm.3-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra-0.10.10-42.pm.3-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.10-42.pm.2-x86_64 -> packman.links2linux.de
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm --verify --query --all '*gst*'
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm --verify MPlayer
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm --verify --query --all '*vlc*'
linux-mnmh:~ # rpm --verify w32codec-all
linux-mnmh:~ #