On 25/11/2007, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman(a)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.