[MPlayer-users] How do I play this file?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 5/28/05, John McKee <jmmckee at flinthills.com> wrote:
> I have the mplayer plugin installed, so I expected something when I clicked on the link on the NASA web page.  The plugin started, and it began buffering.  I have a dialup connection, so I don't know if I just ddin't wait long enough.  I saw the display change to something like 30 percent buffered.  Would it have eventually played?
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> I then saved the link to disk and attempted to play it via mplayer.   Using mplayer with no options just returned an end of file.  When I added -playlist, this is what I received:
> 
> Playing <?xml version="1.0"?>.
> File not found: '<?xml version="1.0"?>'
> Failed to open <?xml version="1.0"?>
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> Playing <?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>.
> File not found: '<?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>'
> Failed to open <?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>
> 
> 
> Playing <embed src="http://cc.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/050523-voyager.qt.smil" autoplay="true" />.
> Unable to open URL: <embed src="http://cc.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/050523-voyager.qt.smil" autoplay="true" />
> 
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
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> Here is what the file looks like:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
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> <?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>
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> <embed src="http://cc.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/050523-voyager.qt.smil" autoplay="true" />
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> Can either mplayer or mplayer plugin play this?  If so, how?  I even tried using Windows 2000 and that also failed.

Download http://cc.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/050523-voyager.qt.smil and
you'll see that it embedded a link to
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/voyager/voyager_interstellar320.mov
Plays fine with win32 binary codecs.

Cheers,
Guillaume