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