[MPlayer-users] mplayer cannot play this internet TV stream

[Larry]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:49:09AM -0700, Thorgal Aegirsson wrote:


What I was trying to figure out is whether mplayer plugin will play it.
I have had good luck with all kinkds of windows stuff using the mplayer
plugin.  Are you trying that?





> Hi Larry,
> 
> Thanks for your effort. I am corresponding with the
> streamtv team to trace down the problem. I am not
> familiar with the danish language either but I live in
> Denmark and the TV licence is really expensive. So
> since they provide high quality TV stream, I thought I
> would try it out. 
> 
> The problem seems to be related to the start up of the
> stream. There is a small file called Fullfull.mov that
> contains instructions for native quicktime players to
> pop up in full screen mode. I told the streamtv people
> that this file confuses linux video players because of
> its fourcc set to GIF, and probably because of stuff
> that only native quicktime players can understand. I
> actually tried it on a windows system with vlc-windows
> and it works fine but I don't have windows myself, and
> I simply refuse to use it. So let's see what streamtv
> will do. I think they will to provide a fix. But they
> were surprised to hear that linux players can play
> recent quicktime movies ... pffff, windoze is so
> narrow-minding sometimes!
> 
> T.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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