pennsylvania falcon cam: mplayer problem

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pennsylvania falcon cam: mplayer problem

Post by zipidachimp »

it's time again for the annual falcon cam watching experience: http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/falcon/

when I click on the live cam, mplayer opens but stops abruptly and doesn't restart. can anyone fix this? :( using mint 4
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Husse

Re: pennsylvania falcon cam: mplayer problem

Post by Husse »

There's something strange going on with the live cam - can't get it to work either
Probably not a flash problem anyway
I tried in Totem too and I found out that there is some redirect to
mms://adams.wm-live.abacast.com/commonwealthofpa-live7-300'.
and I suspect that the URL is cut off - there should be some file suffix I think (aspx as earlier or htm or whatnot)
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Re: pennsylvania falcon cam: mplayer problem

Post by zipidachimp »

thanks. I've has similar problems with mplayer at other sites. how can I prevent mplayer opening, so I can try VLC? :?
Husse

Re: pennsylvania falcon cam: mplayer problem

Post by Husse »

You have to edit "Applications" in the Firefox preferences out mplayer in VLC
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