On Saturday 28 July 2007 15:47:29 Bev Nicolson wrote:
I think I get it now (mostly) but do I save it on the desktop or open another tab in Firefox?
I wasn't very helpful on this thread.
followed by a space, then middle-click to enter the URL saved by "Copy link location". Thus I get a line like;
realplay http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/world/ video/108000/bb/108931_16x9_bb.ram
I've just checked this URL. These .ram files are like little descriptor files for streamed media; they usually contain the URI of the stream itself. So I tried this:
$ wget http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/world/video/108000/bb/108931_16x9_bb.r... $ cat 108931_16x9_bb.ram rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/world/video/108000/bb/108931_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC (broadband) MPS clip"&author="BBC"©right="(C) British Broadcasting Corporation"
So I now have the URI of the streamed media:
rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/world/video/108000/bb/108931_16x9_bb.rm
which I passed to mplayer[1]:
$ mplayer rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/world/video/108000/bb/108931_16x9_bb.rm
and it played fine. Its quite possible that you'll need the w32codecs[2] package installed.
And what does the realplayer command in terminal do? It didn't seem to recognise it
It invokes RealPlayer[3]. You can install it instead of/as well as mplayer:
$ sudo apt-get install realplayer
Though not being an Ubuntu user myself I don't know which versions/repositories its in.
Cheers, Richard
[1] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ [sudo apt-get install mplayer] [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-79449.html [3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/net/realplayer