Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in downloads but doesn't play

[Nicolas Litchinko]

Hello, 

On 11:03 Sun 27 Nov     , Manuel McLure wrote:
> On Sunday 27 November 2005 07:51, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Does anyone have this problem? I click a link, such as on the page I
> > put in this email, I get a new Firefox window, mplayerplug-in seems to
> > be downloading, but then never plays. If I look at processes using top
> > and ps aux I do not see mplayer at all.
> >
> > http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/2005/11/more-music.html
> >
> > There are ogg and mp3 links to try.
>
> What version of mplayerplug-in are you running? I *greatly* recommend using at
> least 3.11 (which is still marked ~x86) - it's the first that works really
> well for me (the earlier releases would crash firefox when you left the page
> with the video on it.) I'd also see the problem you see with earlier versions
> - the page would appear to download the video but nothing would happen.

I am still running version 2.80 of the mplayerplug-in and it works just 
fine. Though I must admit that I had the same problem as Mark at the 
beginning. It came from the default video driver used by 
mplayer/mplayerplug-in which wasn't compatible with my video card. I had 
to edit the ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf file:

vo=xv
ao=alsa
osdlevel=1

I hope that it helps.

-- 
Nicolas Litchinko

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