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On Sunday 22 October 2006 23:14, James wrote: |
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> I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using |
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> espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the |
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> Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones |
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> and which plugins work best? |
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> Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if |
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> so any caveats or gotchas? |
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Last time I tried it didn't work with gxine, or xine. As far as I can recall |
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the reason was that this website is using active-x scripting to establish a |
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SSL connection and the Linux apps/plugins do not (yet) have a way of parsing |
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that. Otherwise, either xine or mplayer will happily play wmp streams. It |
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may be more complicated than what I am alluding to above, but that's as far |
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as my understanding could take me. ;-) |
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You could always write to the website master/admin and ask them to provide you |
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with a link that works without active-x, but they are such an exclusive |
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M$haft shop I'd wager you get a "we do not support anything else than Billy |
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Gate's shareholders . . ." type of response. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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