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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 22 November 2009 12:47:57 Dale wrote: |
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>> Mick wrote: |
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>>> On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Mick wrote: |
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>>>>> Hi All, |
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>>>>> I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for |
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>>>>> gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could also |
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>>>>> access the stream/file in /tmp/ and save it, resize it, replay it, etc. |
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>>>>> With gnome-mplayer all I get is a socket in /tmp which I can't access |
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>>>>> directly - mplayer won't play it. The embedded video is always at |
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>>>>> maximum size filling up the browser window and at poor quality videos |
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>>>>> the picture deteriorates. On top of it I find gnome-mplayer is a bit |
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>>>>> clunky with regards to its controls (I can't just drag the cursor to |
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>>>>> watch a previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with |
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>>>>> mplayerplug-in). Is there a better alternative, more akin to the |
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>>>>> mplayerplug-in? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab |
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>>>> those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really |
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>>>> well. |
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>>> Thanks Dale, but I have no problem with flash embedded videos - they |
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>>> don't use the gnome-mplayer. |
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> I think this is a mistake on my part: gnome-mplayer seems to be a dependency |
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> of gecko-mediaplayer. |
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>> There may be a misunderstanding on this. With the download helper, you |
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>> go to a site that has a video you want, instead of copying it from /tmp |
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>> or where ever it is stored, you click on a button and save it where ever |
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>> you want to save it. If you don't like the file format that it is in, |
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>> it will convert it for you too. |
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> Sure, but from what I figured this FF addon is only good for Flash embedded |
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> videos. I assume (because I can't download it right now) that it won't work |
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> with e.g.: |
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> http://www.amd.com/us- |
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> en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv |
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I went to that link and downloaded the video with no problem at all. |
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Once it started to playing, I hit the download button and saved it to my |
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desktop. It plays fine with splayer which uses mplayer as the back |
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end. It even converted it to a mp4 for me. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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