I ended up recompiling from source with just the esd sound drivers as suggested. That seems to have solved the sound issue. I also had to correct the k12ltsp sound hack for flash (seems to be a mistake in the variable name in the cron job, which was listed in another thread). I still can't get gmplayer to work (mplayer with the gui), nor is mplayerplug-in working correctly. However, neither of these are essential for the demo since Ryan just wanted to show that the Unitedstreaming content can be played back as a movie once the actual clips were downloaded to the local server. To do this, I simply put an application launcher icon on the teachers desktop. Dragging and dropping a video file onto the icon launches mplayer (not gmplayer) without the gui and the video works fine. mplayer can be completely controlled through keyboard shortcuts if needed but since all that the teachers wanted was to play complete clips, this is ok for now. I also created a directory for saving the files so that the teachers can share the clips and avoid duplicate downloads. As for documentation, I will definitely document what works once I get the gui and plugin working properly. Sincerely, Dave Hopkins <div>On 2/20/07, Petre Scheie <<a href="mailto:petre@maltzen.net">petre@maltzen.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dave- How did you finally fix the problems of playing the United Streaming content? In the last episode that I caught, you were using mplayer, but sound was not working, as I recall. Petre David Hopkins wrote: > Final follow-up on this. > > Ryan (the tech coord) informed me that the demo of using United > Streaming went flawlessly last Friday. He was even able to show an ad > hoc presentation by one of the invited speakers that used both Windows > Media player and flash-based movies from a usb stick without any problems. > > Again, many many thanks to everyone for the assistance that let this happen. > > Sincerely, > Dave Hopkins > > > On 2/4/07, *David Hopkins* < <a href="mailto:dahopkins429@gmail.com">dahopkins429@gmail.com</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:dahopkins429@gmail.com">dahopkins429@gmail.com</a>>> wrote: > > A little more on the continue saga of getting mplayer with the gui > to work. > > mplayer runs solidly now, playing all the videos that I have tried > from UnitedStreaming provided I start it from a terminal session. I > have not gotten either the gui interface nor the plugin to work > properly. > > GUI: For the gui, it launches but the moment you start a clip, it > freezes. Now, the only clue I have is that if you try to then open > a terminal session after launching gmplayer, the terminal session > also freezes. Is there a possibility that the gui is trying to > write to std out and can't so it freezes? If I execute a CTRL-C for > the terminal window, I then get the prompt back, and can kill gmplayer. > > Plugin: The plugin shows as loaded, and shows that it is > downloading/buffering, but then on playback, I do not get anything, > no picture, no sound. > > Sincerely, > Dave Hopkins > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> > For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com </a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>