Missing text/html decoder

[René Stadler]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Steven Comfort
<Steven.Comfort at uec.co.za> wrote:
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> Do you know of a way to get the actual URL for the streaming video/audio?

If it is HTML5 video, it should be pretty obvious from the page
source. For arbitrary Flash based players, there is no standard way to
derive the media URL that I know of.

> I've been googling for sites for half the day and can't find any sites that Gstreamer will decode?

GStreamer can handle almost all formats over http which it can use for
local file playback as well. This is highly dependent on which plugins
you have installed in your system however. If you use the playbin2
element, GStreamer should even tell you which kind of elements you are
missing.

Regards,
--René