Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:39:26 -0500 From: Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Playing Flash and video media in Firefox Message-ID: <20051007133926.GJ32312@localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20051007121045.5ea93c43@apircalabu.dsd.ro> References: <4345AB42.3010105@wanadoo.fr> <200510071054.36606.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> <cb5206420510062114h4459156bh12fbe95586a31b09@mail.gmail.com> <20051007121045.5ea93c43@apircalabu.dsd.ro>
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:10:45PM +0300, Adi Pircalabu wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:14:38 +0400
> "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Still, I haven't figured out how to watch webcasts from some
> > stupid sites that try to detect whether you have WMP installed.
> Some sites are extremely broken, indeed. For example, I can't see
> the videos from uefa.com, they simply refuse to deliver me the
> content on either FreeBSD, SuSE and Ubuntu.
A little grepping around in the sites' HTML usually (not always)
allows you to figure out what file is actually being loaded. Once
you know that, it's simple to stream it in eg Mplayer. I needed to
do this to watch film trailers at Apple.com or stream soccer games
from mls.com.
$ curl http://the.site.com | grep '\.\(rm\|wmv\|mov\)'
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