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Perhaps someone here can help me or point me to some other place in the forums (I have searched but not found what I want) that will tell me how to watch videos on my N800. I am using OS2008 and have mplayer installed.

When I go to http://www.cbc.ca/national/index.html and tap the link view any of the videos there, it shows the embedded player they offer. Clicking the play video link, produces the default graphic for not working. If I click and hold and try to save the video, I get a 1 kb file that seems to have nothing in it. If I tap and hold, and ask it to Open in the pop up menu, it starts Media Player, says it is connecting, and sits that way until I close the program.

I understand MPlayer is a solution. How to I get the option to open a streaming video from the browser? Must I download the video file first and if so, how do I do that?

Thanks in advance for pointing me to the answers for this.
 
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Originally Posted by kgw View Post
Perhaps someone here can help me or point me to some other place in the forums (I have searched but not found what I want) that will tell me how to watch videos on my N800. I am using OS2008 and have mplayer installed.

When I go to http://www.cbc.ca/national/index.html and tap the link view any of the videos there, it shows the embedded player they offer. Clicking the play video link, produces the default graphic for not working. If I click and hold and try to save the video, I get a 1 kb file that seems to have nothing in it. If I tap and hold, and ask it to Open in the pop up menu, it starts Media Player, says it is connecting, and sits that way until I close the program.

I understand MPlayer is a solution. How to I get the option to open a streaming video from the browser? Must I download the video file first and if so, how do I do that?

Thanks in advance for pointing me to the answers for this.

Select the Play video link, keep your stylus down, select Copy link location. Start X terminal, write mplayer -playlist and paste your link.
Tried that with
mplayer -playlist http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/23745/thenati...sue-013108.wmv
 

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Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
Benson: OK. I followed your directions and it seems (as you perhaps surmised) that I was about 90% already set up, and I just had to check "autoconnect" to get everything working. Now I'll have to play around with it a bit, and see if it's as useful to me as Kiligali currently is. (I only need a directory-based music player.) However, in looking for music with mmpc, it seems to only have browsed one of my two cards, plus the MyDocs/.documents directory. I'll have to see what needs to be done to get it to browse both cards. There might be some command to select which specific directories I want to have scanned (as there is in Kagu). Anyway, many thanks. Jim
Benson: You're probably sick of hearing from me any longer on this subject, but I've discovered since posting the above that the apparent scanning process is not actually finding any .mp3 files, only playlists that I'd previously established with Kagu. I'm really frustrated as this apparently works fine for other people and their N800's but not for me and mine.
 
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