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

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/27/05, Nicolas Litchinko <n.litchinko@××××.fr> wrote:
> On 11:33 Sun 27 Nov     , Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On 11/27/05, Nicolas Litchinko <n.litchinko@××××.fr> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Hi,
> >    Interesting. Two questions:
> >
> > 1) Is xv a driver that you use for your video card? The specific
> > system I'm looking at has this in xorg.conf:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier  "Intel 810"
> >     Driver      "i810"
> >     #VideoRam    65536
> >     # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
> > EndSection
> >
> > Would I choose 'i810' where you used 'xv'?
> >
>
> This is the name of the video driver used by mplayer and it's not really
> related to the xorg driver (I'm using the nvidia xorg driver).
> You can get a list of all those mplayer offers by using:
>
> mplayer -vo help

Ah, thanks! Helpful.

>
> > 2) The system in question doesn't have a file
> > ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf. Did you create this file or was it
> > there for you to modify?
> >
>
> I think I had to create this file.
>

I see that there is a file /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf. Everything is
commented out so I tried starting with that.

It turns out that my AMD64 box already used 3.11 and I took the P4HT
box back to 3.11. The AMD64 does play audio, but strangely. mplayer
starts in the background. The audio plays but there is no way to stop
it short of killing mplayer. The P4 still just downloads and doesn't
play. I can download a file and play it in the mplayer gui just fine
on the P4, but not from the link within Firefox so far.

Thanks,
Mark

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