-=> MARK LEWIS wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 -> http://www.bp.com/

 WC> Oh well, doesn't work.

 WC> Their flash video link doesn't hook up with libflashplayer.so  in
 WC> Slackware GNU/Linux

 ML> oops... yeah... i had to install a firefox plugin on one of my
 ML> machines... it isn't flash... it brings up winderz media player...
 ML> looking at the page's source code, it is an x-mplayer2 mime type and it
 ML> is being fed off of one of the akamai servers...

Yeah I ought to look again and see if I can't get the exact link to the
video feed, copy it and redirect it into mplayer and see if I can view 
it thataway.

 ML> if you have something there that can play x-mplayer2 mine types, you
 ML> may be able to shovel the source URL into it and see the stream... that
 ML> source URL is

 ML>   http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:46245.asx?bkup=46260

I was just saying above...

Thanks, this post saved to ~/url and now to try to redirect it or 
possibly wget a fragment of the video.

 ML> i typed that by hand reading it off the screen from another other
 ML> machine... i hope i got it right... maybe MK in the linux echo will
 ML> know of a media player that does x-mplayer2 mime or possibly a plugin
 ML> that'll tie it into something you may already have... then again, maybe
 ML> he won't as he seems to blame everything on "DOS-think" :? :(

It should work in mplayer just fine.

I've other things occupying my mind just at the moment.

Thanks again for the input and most thanks for taking this off the severe
personal flame bent this echo seems to be all about.

MK has be *the man* for me when it comes to the go to guy for 
Linux whenever I got hung up.

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