MPlayer and Windows Media videos--sound, but no picture!

[Robin Laing]

Temlakos wrote:
> I tried everything mentioned at the link below. No luck. What next?
> 
> Temlakos
> 
> On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 22:54, John Yanosko wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 16:28, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>
>>>Temlakos wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 22:53, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I find that when I don't get any picture, I often do after toggling the 
>>>>>Full Screen mode a few times....
>>>>>
>>>>>I tried the URL above, and had to toggle 5 times to actually see the 
>>>>>trailer run in Full Screen Mode.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>But how can you toggle Full Screen mode in mplayer when it is operating
>>>>through its Mozilla plug-in? Where is the hot button for that kind of
>>>>toggle? If I were playing a download in mplayer itself, I could find it
>>>>easily, but not the plug-in--unless I'm missing something.
>>>
>>>I found it in the lower right-hand corner of the plugin.  And it remains 
>>>there (lower right hand corner of the screen) while in full screen mode....
>>>
>>
>>It's also in the context menu.
>>
>>And, if you didn't already know, Windows codecs are not reliable under
>>Mplayer unless you disable prelink and exec-shield for Mplayer.
>>
>>See http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#id2893643
>>
> 
> 

Have you downloaded the file and tried to run in terminal mode?

Do you get a seg fault?

I have tried everything and I find that some WM files always seg 
fault.  I have tried the pre-link solution with no success unless I 
keep doing something wrong.


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Robin Laing