Could someone please walk me through playing the .ogg files on the site? As it would look to Joe Public, with a Windows machine having Windows Media Player or Real Player as default. (I read in WikiZine something suggesting this has changed recently.)
Charles
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Same request, actually. I used to know how to, but since it's all changed, I haven't a clue. Assuming they're working at all...
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From: charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:43:42 +0000 Subject: [WikiEN-l] Audio player update request
Could someone please walk me through playing the .ogg files on the site? As it would look to Joe Public, with a Windows machine having Windows Media Player or Real Player as default. (I read in WikiZine something suggesting this has changed recently.)
Charles
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On 25/11/2007, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Same request, actually. I used to know how to, but since it's all changed, I haven't a clue. Assuming they're working at all...
You mean, when you bring up a page and there's a clicky button on it?
Basically: It uses whatever it can find installed to play the audio/video right there in the page. If that doesn't work, you can download the Ogg file.
More detail: If you have Flash or Java, it tries to use that. If you have VLC or Mplayer installed and set up to work as a browser plugin, it'll use that. If you have none of these at all installed, you have a download link. (The fundraiser video page expressly suggests using VLC, not sure if the download link does.)
Asking on wikitech-l will probably get more precise details (and correct anything I'm wrong about above). It's all still a bit beta (I find it deeply annoying to click "play" and wait 30 seconds for Java to load ... it's identical to the browser crashing frozen), but it's in active development. I think Tim Starling's a bit busy (to say the least) with fundraiser stuff, but others have worked on it.
- d.
On 11/25/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Could someone please walk me through playing the .ogg files on the site? As it would look to Joe Public, with a Windows machine having Windows Media Player or Real Player as default.
Install the [[K-Lite_Codec_Pack]] and the already installed WMP will play them just fine, (in the browser too I think)