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

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2010-12-12 14:08:16 skrev Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>  
> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> What is the security risk in this?
> Is there a way I can see the site on Ubuntu ?
>

If you install Active X in Ubuntu, but that is probably not possible even  
in Wine, I would guess.

-- 
Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg