what codecs are required to watch live stream on this web page

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Sun Dec 12 11:02:10 UTC 2010


On 12 December 2010 06:11, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> A long time back I had asked this question on Ubuntu forum here
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1368950
> at that time I was using Jaunty 32 bit.
> Now I am using Lucid 64 bit and the situation is same.
> I want to watch a live stream which is available here
> http://www.shrisaibabasansthan.org/shirdilivedarshan1.htm

>From the web page I believe this
<OBJECT id=WMP7 style="LEFT: 110px; WIDTH: 352px; TOP: 0px; HEIGHT: 352px"
height=352 width=352 classid=CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6>
embeds a Windows Media Player ActiveX control in the page.  I don't
think this will work other than on Windows.  I cannot believe there
are still sites out there using ActiveX Controls.  I believe that It
is a major security risk on Windows so I would not advise going there
on a Windows machine either.

Colin




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